Developmental aspects and factors influencing the synthesis and status of ascorbic acid in the pig

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue , 2004, Pages 79-103

  Mahan, D C ^a   Ching, S ^a   Dabrowski, K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Dehydroascorbic acid; Pigs; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; GULONOLACTONE OXIDASE; VITAMIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; BIOACCUMULATION; COLOSTRUM; CORPUS LUTEUM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SWINE; TESTIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; FETUS; L-GULONOLACTONE OXIDASE; LIVER; MILK; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SUGAR ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASES; SWINE; WEANING;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3142776129     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nutr.24.012003.132150     Document Type: Review

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