Vitamin C (eBook, ePUB)

New Biochemical and Functional Insights
Redaktion: Chen, Qi; Vissers, Margreet C M

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Vitamin C holds a unique place in scientific and cultural history. This book surveys this history also provides updates on recent uses of Vitamin C in cancer therapy, the treatment of infectious disease, and the potential for stem cell transplantation, as well as other health implications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429807800
• Artikelnr.: 58558279

Autorenporträt

Qi Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas, City, USA. Margareet C.M. Vissers, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science at the University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Overview of Vitamin C. 1. A "C Odyssey": Recommended Dietary
Allowances and Optimal Health: Paradigm and Promise of Vitamin C. Part II
Chemistry and Biology of Vitamin C. 2. Chemistry and Biochemistry of
Vitamin C in Mammalian Systems. 3. Vitamin C Alimentation via SLC Solute
Carriers. 4. Vitamin C Pharmacokinetics. 5. Ascorbate as an Enzyme
Cofactor. 6. Role of Ascorbate and Dehydroascorbic Acid in Metabolism of
the Cell. Part III Vitamin C and Immune Function. 7. Vitamin C in Pneumonia
and Sepsis. 8. Vitamin C in Immune Cell Function. 9. Role of Vitamin C in
Chronic Wound Healing. Part IV Vitamin C and Neurological Function. 10.
Vitamin C in Neurological Function and Neurodegenerative Disease. 11.
Vitamin C and the Brain. 12. Epigenetic Role of Vitamin C in Neurological
Development and Disease.