ABSTRACT
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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|21 pages
Overview of Vitamin C
chapter Chapter One|19 pages
A “C Odyssey”
part Two|90 pages
Chemistry and Biology of Vitamin C
chapter Chapter Six|14 pages
Role of Ascorbate and Dehydroascorbic Acid in Metabolic Integration of the Cell
part Three|67 pages
Vitamin C and Immune Function
part Four|69 pages
Vitamin C and Neurological Function