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Vitamin C : New Biochemical and Functional Insights, PDF eBook

Vitamin C : New Biochemical and Functional Insights PDF

Edited by Qi Chen, Margreet C M Vissers

Part of the Oxidative Stress and Disease series

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Description

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.