Vitamin C: antioxidant or pro-oxidant in vivo?
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.
Neurodegenerative Disease Research Centre, King's College, University of London, UK.
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D000975:Antioxidants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000633:toxicity; D006801:Humans; D016877:Oxidants / Q000494:pharmacology*
D000975:Antioxidants; D016877:Oxidants; D001205:Ascorbic Acid