Vitamin E Tocotrienols Protect Against Stroke

Published in the October issue of the American Heart Association’s journal STROKE, Vitamin E tocotrienols showed significant protection against stroke-induced injury compared with matched controls.

Oral supplementation with tocotrienols in spontaneously-hypertensive rats led to increased brain levels of tocotrienols. This unique form of vitamin E at subattomole quantity protected neurons from glutamate-challenge, consistent with previous reports that at low doses, the neuroprotective property of tocotrienol is not shared by tocopherol. Alpha-tocopherol itself had no effect at such low doses.

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