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- Title
Vitamin C as a therapeutic healing agent.
- Authors
Vinishdharma, T.; Don, K. R.
- Abstract
Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, and the antiscorbutic vitamin. Chemically, it is called L-xyloascorbic acid and L-threo-hex-2-uronic acid g-lactone. The very highest concentrations of Vitamin C are found in the adrenal and pituitary gland. High levels are also found in liver, leukocytes, brain, kidney, and pancreas. Most of the Vitamin C is found in liver and skeletal muscle due to their relative size to the rest of the body. Ascorbic acid is one of the important water-soluble vitamins. It is essential for collagen, carnitine, and neurotransmitters biosynthesis. Most plants and animals synthesize ascorbic acid for their own requirement. However, humans cannot synthesize ascorbic acid due to lack of an enzyme gulonolactone oxidase. Hence, ascorbic acid has to be supplemented mainly through fruits, vegetables, and tablets. Vitamin C is literally amazing in the wide variety of function it performs in healing the body and maintaining body health. Many health benefits have been attributed to ascorbic acid such as antioxidant, antiatherogenic, anticarcinogenic, immunomodulator, and prevent cold. The best-characterized function is the synthesis of collagen connective tissue protein at the level of hydroxylation of the prolyl and lysyl residues of procollagen. Vitamin C also plays important roles in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, steroid hormones, carnitine, conversion of cholesterol to bile acids, tyrosine degradation, and metal ion metabolism. This vitamin also may enhance iron bioavailability. The role of ascorbic acid as a biological reducing agent may be linked to its prevention of degenerative diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
- Subjects
VITAMIN C; WATER-soluble vitamins; CHOLESTEROL metabolism; BODY size; PITUITARY gland; CONNECTIVE tissues
- Publication
Drug Invention Today, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 3, p554
- ISSN
0975-7619
- Publication type
Article