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Handbook of vitamin C research : daily requirements, dietary sources, and adverse effects / Hubert Kucharski and Julek Zajac, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nutrition and diet research progress series.
- Nutrition and diet research progress series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vitamin C--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Vitamin C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (436 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 6-carbon lactone known as ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is an important water-soluble vitamin. It is essential for preserving optimal health and it is used by the body for many purposes, including collagen biosynthesis, melanin reduction and enhanced immunity. This book addresses some important issues related to vitamin C.
- Contents:
- Impact of vitamin C on exercise-induced oxidative stress and tissue injury / Kelsey H. Fisher-Wellman, Richard J. Bloomer
- Human specific vitamin C metabolism and xenobiotic polymorphism : the optimal nutrition / Yasuo Kagawa ... [et al.]
- Vitamin C protects from oxidative DNA damage and apoptosis caused by food n-nitrosamines / Ana I. Haza, Almudena Garcia, Paloma Morales
- Pro-oxidant vs. antioxidant effects of vitamin C / Borut Poljsak, John G. Ionescu
- Encapsulation devices for vitamin C / Magdalena Stevanovic, Dragan Uskokovic
- Molecular bases of the cellular handling of vitamin C : transport and metabolism in health and disease / JJG Marin ... [et al.]
- Vitamin C : daily requirements, dietary sources and adverse effects / Jun Yang, Jiaren Liu, John Parry
- Vitamin C intake : types of foods consumed and meal pattern differences in children with high or low exposure to environmental tobacco smoke / Alan M. Preston ... [et al.]
- The role of vitamin C in human reproduction / E. Tzagaraki ... [et al.]
- Effects of vitamin C on oxidative stress-induced molecular pathways in epilepsy / Mustafa Naziroglu
- Vitamin C as a stress bioindicator of Norway Spruce : a case study in Slovenia / Samar Al Sayegh Petkovek, Botjan Pokorny, Erico Velenje
- Protective effect of vitamin C on vascular damage and arterial hypertension induced by low-level of mercury and lead exposure / Antonio J. Lopez-Farre ... [et al.]
- Vitamin C in the treatment of endothelial dysfunction / Alin Stirban
- Vitamin C intake by Japanese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Fumi Hirayama and Andy H. Lee
- Reciprocal effects of ascorbate on cancer cell growth and the expression of matrix metalloproteinases and transforming growth factor-beta : modulation by gene silencing or P. leucotomos / Neena Philips
- Shortage of vitamin C accelerates aging / Akihito Ishigami
- The importance of food processing on vitamin C : present and future trends / Rui M.S. Cruz, Margarida C. Vieira, Cristina L.M. Silva.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61324-970-5
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