Commentary: Vitamin C: Antioxidant or Pro-Oxidant In Vivo?
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Free Radical Research
- Vol. 25 (5), 439-454
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10715769609149066
Abstract
Ascorbic acid has a multiplicity of antioxidant properties, but it can exert pro-oxidant effects in vitro, usually by interaction with transition metal ions. It is as yet uncertain that these pro-oxidant effects have any biological relevance: some of the available data are summarized.Keywords
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