University of Kentucky Academic Appointments: • Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences Education: • B.S., Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Awards: • American Society for Clinical Nutrition Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Specific Interest in Nutrition: Role of nutrients in antioxidant defense. Research: Reactive oxygen species-induced oxidative damage and cellular antioxidant defense. Selected List of Publications: 1. Smith, P., A.L. Tappel and C.K. Chow. Glutathione peroxidase activity as a function of dietary selenomethionine. Nature ( London) 247: 392-393, 1974. 2. Chow, C.K. Biochemical responses in the lungs of ozone-tolerant rats. Nature ( London) 260: 721-722, 1976. 3. Chow, C.K. Nutritional influence on cellular antioxidant defense systems. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 32: 1061-1081, 1979. 4. Ibrahim, W., U.-S. Lee, H.-C. Yen, D.K. St. Clair and C.K. Chow. Oxidative stress and antioxidant status of manganese-superoxide dismutase tranagenic mice. Free Rad. Biol. Med . 28: 397-402, 2000. 5. Chow, C.K. Vitamin E. In Handbook of Vitamins, 3rd ed. (Rucker, R., J.W. Suttie, D.M McCormick and L.J. Machlin, eds.), Marcel Dekker, New York, pp.165-196, 2001. 6. Chow, C.K. Vitamin E regulation of mitochondrial superoxide generation. Biol. Signals Receptors 10: 112-124, 2001. 7. Chow, C.K., W. Ibrahim, S.J, Yen and D.K. St. Clair. Manganese superoxide dismutase transgenic mice: characterization and implications. Methods Enzymol. 353: 398-409, 2002. 8. Chow, C.K. Dietary and mitochondrial coenzyme Q10. Methods Enzymol. 382: 105-112, 2003. 9. Chow, C.K. Biological functions and metabolic fate of vitamin E revisited. J. Biomed. Sci. 11: 295-302, 2004. 10. Ibrahim, W. and C.K. Chow. Dietary vitamin E reduces tissue labile iron. J. Biochem. Mol. Toxicol., 19: 1-6, 2005.
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