Vitamin C in health and disease / edited by Lester Packer, Jürgen Fuchs.
Material type: TextSeries: Antioxidants in health and disease ; 5.Publisher: New York : M. Dekker, 1997Description: xiv, 538 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0824793137
- 9780824793135
- 615.328
- QP772.A8 V565 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. A History of Scurvy and Vitamin C -- 2. An Overview of Ascorbic Acid Chemistry and Biochemistry -- 3. Antioxidant and Prooxidant Properties of Vitamin C -- 4. The Vitamin C Radical and Its Reactions -- 5. Vitamin C and Redox Cycling Antioxidants -- 6. Regeneration of Vitamin C -- 7. Protein Glycation by the Oxidation Products of Ascorbic Acid -- 8. Ascorbate Membrane Transport Properties -- 9. Vitamin C as an Antiatherogen: Mechanisms of Action -- 10. Protection of Human Low-Density Lipoprotein from Oxidative Modification by Vitamin C -- 11. Diet and Oxidative Damage to DNA: The Importance of Ascorbate as an Antioxidant -- 12. Vitamin C, Collagen Biosynthesis, and Aging -- 13. Oxidative Stress and Ascorbate in Relation to Risk for Cataract and Age-Related Maculopathy -- 14. Antioxidant Action of Vitamin C in the Lung -- 15. Vitamin C and Asthma -- 16. Effect of Vitamin C on Leukocyte Function and Adhesion to Endothelial Cells -- 17. Mechanisms Underlying the Action of Vitamin C in Viral and Immunodeficiency Disease -- 18. Blood Vitamin C in Human Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency -- 19. Vitamin C in Cutaneous Biology -- 20. Human Metabolism and the Requirement for Vitamin C -- 21. Vitamin C Safety in Humans -- 22. Vitamin C in Prospective Epidemiological Studies -- 23. Nitrogen Oxides Are Important Contributors to Cigarette Smoke-Induced Ascorbate Oxidation -- 24. Vitamin C and Cigarette Smoke Exposure -- 25. Vitamin C, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption -- 26. Vitamin C, Lipid Peroxidation, and the Risk of Myocardial Infraction: Epidemiological Evidence from Eastern Finland -- 27. Vitamin C and Infectious Diseases -- 28. Ascorbic Acid and Periodontal Disease -- 29. Tropical Vitamin C -- Index.
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