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Vitamin C: antioxidant or pro-oxidant in vivo?
1Neurodegenerative Disease Research Centre, King's College, University of London, UK.
Free Radical Research
|November 1, 1996
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.