Is vitamin C an antiinflammatory agent?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-526

  Jialal, Ishwarlal ^a,b   Singh, Uma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ANTIOXIDANT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FRUIT; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VEGETABLE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FRUIT; HUMANS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 33645649606     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn.83.3.525     Document Type: Editorial

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