Vitamin C and Human Health

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2014
• Subjects: cardiovascular disease; bioavailability; gene regulation; inflammation; cancer; neurological effects; vitamin C-dependent enzymes; human status
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ascorbic acid is a small, simple, water soluble molecule, synthesised by most plants and animals, with the exception of humans and some animal species due to mutations in the gene encoding the terminal enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway. For humans, it is thus a vitamin (vitamin C) that must be obta...