Vitamin C in disease prevention and cure: An overview

Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 314-328

  Chambial, Shailja ^a   Dwivedi, Shailendra ^a   Shukla, Kamla Kant ^a   John, Placheril J ^b   Sharma, Praveen ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cancer; Diabetes; Heavy metal toxicity; Immunity; Infertility; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BILE ACID; CHOLESTEROL; FOLIC ACID; IRON; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; VITAMIN B GROUP;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOAVAILABILITY; COMMON COLD; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FERTILITY; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCURVY; UTERUS CANCER; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84885074494     PISSN: 09701915     EISSN: 09740422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12291-013-0375-3     Document Type: Review

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