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Cerebral cytokine-induced inflammation reduced by alpha-tocopherol

Published in Proteomics Weekly, May 31st, 2004

The antioxidant alpha-tocopherol lowers cerebral production of inflammatory cytokines in mice.

Researchers in the United States conducted a study "to determine if alpha-tocopherol - a reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging agent - inhibits LPS-induced oxidative stress and interleukin-6 (IL-6) production in murine microglia and brain.

"LPS increased intracellular peroxides and IL-6 in a dose-dependent fashion in primary microglia. The LPS-induced increase in ROS and IL-6 was reduced by pretreatment of alpha-tocopherol," reported J.P. Godbout and coauthors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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