Ascorbic acid supplementation improves skeletal muscle oxidative stress and insulin sensitivity in people with type 2 diabetes: Findings of a randomized controlled study

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 227-238

  Mason, Shaun A ^a   Della Gatta, Paul A ^a   Snow, Rod J ^a   Russell, Aaron P ^a   Wadley, Glenn D ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Oxidative stress; Skeletal muscle; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CITRATE SYNTHASE; DICHLOROFLUORESCEIN; FRUCTOSAMINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLYCOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLACEBO; PROTEIN KINASE B; SODIUM ASCORBIC ACID COTRANSPORTER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIABETIC PATIENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FRUCTOSAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCOGEN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERINSULINEMIC-EUGLYCEMIC CLAMP TECHNIQUE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT DURATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ASCORBIC ACID; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 84958771225     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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