Vitamin C supplementation of the maternal diet reduces the rate of malformation in the offspring of diabetic rats

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1416-1424

  Siman C M ^a   Eriksson, U J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antioxidant therapy; Congenital malformation; Diabetic pregnancy; Embryo; Fetus; Oxidative stress; Rat; Streptozotocin; TBARS; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STREPTOZOCIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; FETUS RESORPTION; FETUS WEIGHT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIET; FEMALE; FETUS; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0031452090     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050844     Document Type: Article

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