Journal article

Publication year: 1995

Pages: 97-98

Journal: Redox Report: Communications in Free Radical Research

Volume number: 1

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 1351-0002

eISSN: 1743-2928

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510002.1995.11746965

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
The reduced form of ubiquinone-10 (coenzyme Q) has been shown to represent an important physiologic antioxidant principle in human blood, In order to establish a reference range for infants, we measured plasma levels of ubiquinone in 50 healthy European children aged 2 months to 15 years, A mean (+/-SD) value of 0.75+/-0.27 mu g/ml plasma (0.87+/-0.31 mu M) was determined; ubiquinone concentrations were not found to be sex-dependent (0.75+/-0.24 mu g/ml for girls, n=17, and 0.75+/-0.28 mu g/ml for boys, n=33) but correlated negatively with age (r=-0.37, P=0.0075). This negative correlation was mainly due to relatively high levels in infants approximately 1 year old.The mean value determined does not significantly differ from the average ubiquinone plasma concentrations determined in healthy Nigerian children (0.85+/-0.40 mu g/ml, n=18) in a previous study (Becker K, Boetticher D, Leichsenring M, Internat J Vitam Nutr Res 1995, in press).

Harvard Citation style: Becker, K., Boetticher, D. and Leichsenring, M. (1995) Ubiquinone-10 plasma concentrations in healthy European children, Redox Report: Communications in Free Radical Research, 1(2), pp. 97-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510002.1995.11746965

APA Citation style: Becker, K., Boetticher, D., & Leichsenring, M. (1995). Ubiquinone-10 plasma concentrations in healthy European children. Redox Report: Communications in Free Radical Research. 1(2), 97-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510002.1995.11746965