Vitamin C

New Biochemical and Functional Insights

Qi Chen, Margreet C M Vissers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2020
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-33799-2 (ISBN)

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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 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

Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxidative Stress and Disease
Zusatzinfo	11 Tables, black and white; 29 Illustrations, color; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1600 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-138-33799-4 / 1138337994
ISBN-13	978-1-138-33799-2 / 9781138337992
Zustand	Neuware