Does vitamin C act as a pro‐oxidant under physiological conditions?
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 13 (9), 1007-1024
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.13.9.1007
Abstract
Vitamin C readily scavenges reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and may thereby prevent oxidative damage to important biological macromolecules such as DNA, lipids, and proteins. Vitamin C also re...Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (HL‐49954, HL‐56170)
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