Vitamin C and the immune response
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 33 (3), 393-395
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02002847
Abstract
The inclusion of vitamin C in the drinking water of BALB/c mice was without effect on the humoral antibody response to sheep red blood cells and bacterial lipopolysaccharide. However, there was a significantly increased cell-mediated immune response as determined by increased T-lymphocyte responses to concanavalin A. This might suggest a mechanism, along with interferon enhancement, for the possible protection by vitamin C against some viral infections.Keywords
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