The presence of three chiral centers in the saturated side chain, presenting as either R- or S-configuration, leads to eight different stereoisomers, among which only -tocopherol in its RRR conformation is selectively retained and incorporated into lipoproteins, while non--tocopherol congeners are preferentially metabolized and excreted (Podszun and Frank 2021)
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Oncogene 22 , 461466 (2003)
Plasma insulin was measured using the High Range Mouse Insulin ELISA (Alpco), and plasma total cholesterol was measured using the Wako Cholesterol E colorimetric assay (Fujifilm) following the manufacturers instructions
This finding again supports the hypothesis that combination therapies will yield more synergistic mechanisms to help with the skin-lightening effect, but more studies are warranted to validate the synergistic effects of glutathione further [15]