Vitamin C : new biochemical and functional insights / edited by Qi Chen, Margreet C. M. Vissers. -- Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2020. – (58.174333/V837)

Contents

Preface / ix

Contributors / xi

Part I  Overview of Vitamin C

1  A "C ODYSSEY": RECOMMENDED DIETARY ALLOWANCES AND OPTIMAL HEALTH: PARADIGM AND PROMISE OF VITAMIN C/3

Part II  Chemistry and Biology of Vitamin C

2  CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF VITAMIN C IN MAMMALIAN SYSTEMS ] 25

3  VITAMIN C ALIMENTATION VIA SLC SOLUTE CARRIERS / 39

4  VITAMIN C PHARMACOKINETICS/55

5  ASCORBATE AS AN ENZYME COFACTOR/71

6  ROLE OF ASCORBATE AND DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID IN METABOLIC INTEGRATION OF THE CELL/99

Part III  Vitamin C and Immune Function

7  VITAMIN C IN PNEUMONIA AND SEPSIS/115

8  VITAMIN C IN IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION/137

9  ROLE OF VITAMIN C IN CHRONIC WOUND HEALING 1161

Part IV  Vitamin C and Neurological Function

10  VITAMIN C IN NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE 1183

11  VITAMIN C AND THE BRAIN/213

12  EPIGENETIC ROLE OF VITAMIN C IN NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE/237

Index  251