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Vitamin C Qi Chen (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

Vitamin C By Qi Chen (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

Summary

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.

Vitamin C Summary

Vitamin C: New Biochemical and Functional Insights by Qi Chen (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

Vitamin C holds a unique place in scientific and cultural history. In this book, a group of leading scientific researchers describe new insights into the myriad ways vitamin C is employed during normal physiological functioning. In addition, the text provides an extensive overview of the following: the rationale for utilizing vitamin C in the clinic, updates on recent uses of vitamin C in cancer treatment through high-dose intravenous therapies, the role vitamin C plays in the treatment of sepsis and infectious disease, management of the ways vitamin C can improve stem cell differentiation, as well as vitamin C use in other important health situations.

Features



  • Includes chapters from a team of leading international scholars




  • Reviews the history and recent research on the functions, benefits, and uses of vitamin C




  • Focuses special attention on the way vitamin C can be used in the treatment of cancers




  • Discusses how vitamin C can be employed against infectious disease


About Qi Chen (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Additional information

NLS9781032175256
9781032175256
1032175257
Vitamin C: New Biochemical and Functional Insights by Qi Chen (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-30
268
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