More on vitamin C deficiency in mice and humans
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Combined vitamin C and vitamin E deficiency worsens early atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice.
OBJECTIVE To assess the role of combined deficiencies of vitamins C and E on the earliest stages of atherosclerosis (an inflammatory condition associated with oxidative stress), 4 combinations of vitamin supplementation (low C/low E, low C/high E, high C/low E, and high C/high E) were studied in atherosclerosis-prone apolipoprotein E-deficient mice also unable to synthesize their own vitamin C ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hepatology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24296