Vitamin C enters mouse T cells as dehydroascorbic acid in vitro and does not recapitulate in vivo vitamin C effects

Immunobiology

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-320

  Maeng, Hyung Gun ^a   Lim, Hyunja ^a   Jeong, Young joo ^a   Woo, Ami ^a   Kang, Jae Seung ^a   Lee, Wang Jae ^a   Hwang, Young il ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Dehydroascorbic acid; GLUT; Mouse T cell; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CYTOKINE; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; THYMIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG UPTAKE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 3; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; IONOMYCIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; THYMIDINE;

EID: 62749195560     PISSN: 01712985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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