Vitamin C function in the brain: vital role of the ascorbate transporter SVCT2

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 719-730

  Harrison, Fiona E ^a   May, James M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascorbate recycling; Ascorbate transport; Brain; Dehydroascorbic acid transport; Free radicals; Glucose transporters; SVCT1; SVCT2

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN SVCT2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REDUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS, SODIUM-DEPENDENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SYMPORTERS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 60449102448     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.12.018     Document Type: Review

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