Vitamin C and Human Health
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...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2014
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