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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Immunopharmacol. 2014 Aug 29;23(1):364–372. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2014.08.007

Figure 1. α-tocopherol and γ-tocopherol.

Figure 1

A) α-tocopherol differs from γ-tocopherol by one methyl group (arrows). B) Plasma γ-tocopherol (γ-T) and plasma α-tocopherol (α-T) in 1–2 reports/country and publication dates are indicated 29, 118–128. Global asthma prevalence in 2004 129 and 2012 130. C) Tocopherols were extracted from dietary oils (sunflower oil from Spectrum Organic Products, LLC; safflower oil from Spectrum; olive oil from Colavita; soybean oil from Crisco; corn oil from Mazola; grapeseed oil from Kusha, Inc; sesame oil from Lavita; peanut oil from Essentials by Supervalu; canola oil from Crisco; Sacha Inchi from Olivar). Extracted tocopherols were measured by HPLC with an electrochemical detector as previously described 8. ND, not determined.