LUNG DISEASE

SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE

Animal Study

1. Pretreatment with superoxide dismutase (5 or 20 mg per kilogram body weight) partially protected piglets from lung injury when exposed to an intratracheal toxin.

Biol Neonate. 2001 Aug;80(2):163-8. 
Prophylactic effects of recombinant human superoxide dismutase in neonatal lung injury induced by the intratracheal instillation of endotoxin in piglets.
Nakamura T, Ogawa Y.
PMID: 11509818

VITAMIN C/ASCORBIC ACID

2. According to this review, vitamin C (60 mg/day for nonsmokers and 100 mg/day for smokers) may protect against Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Epidemiol Rev. 2001;23(2):268-87.
Diet and obstructive lung diseases.
Romieu I, Trenga C.