• DOI:10.1080/07315724.2003.10719272
Corpus ID: 21196776

Vitamin C as an Antioxidant: Evaluation of Its Role in Disease Prevention

@article{Padayatty2003VitaminCA,
  title={Vitamin C as an Antioxidant: Evaluation of Its Role in Disease Prevention},
  author={S. Padayatty and A. Katz and Y. Wang and P. Eck and O. Kwon and Je-Hyuk Lee and Shenglin Chen and C. Corpe and Anand Dutta and S. Dutta and M. Levine},
  journal={Journal of the American College of Nutrition},
  year={2003},
  volume={22},
  pages={18 - 35}
}

S. Padayatty, A. Katz, +8 authors M. Levine

Published 2003

Chemistry, Medicine

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Vitamin C in humans must be ingested for survival. Vitamin C is an electron donor, and this property accounts for all its known functions. As an electron donor, vitamin C is a potent water-soluble antioxidant in humans. Antioxidant effects of vitamin C have been demonstrated in many experiments in vitro. Human diseases such as atherosclerosis and cancer might occur in part from oxidant damage to tissues. Oxidation of lipids, proteins and DNA results in specific oxidation products that can be… CONTINUE READING

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