Using a gas-chromatographic method, we examined the effects of phosphate concentration, added calcium chloride, and pH on precipitation of oxalate from urine. All three factors are important, but the pH of precipitation is particularly so, especially in the presence of even normal concentrations of ascorbic acid. At pH 8, increases in measured oxalate ranged from 20% at an ascorbic acid concent...

BACKGROUND The expression of human milk for later use is on the rise. Bottle systems are used to deliver the expressed milk. Research has shown that storage of both human milk and artificial baby milk, or infant formula, leads to a loss of ascorbic acid (commonly called Vitamin C). As milk is removed from the bottle during feeding and replaced by ambient air, it is unknown if loss of ascorbic a...

The oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid may be cat,alyzed by copper (1, 8)) by ot,her metals (11) and metallic compounds, by norit charcoal (5)) and by an enzyme or enzyme complex (12, 13). The dehydroascorbic acid has an antiscorbutic activity similar to that of ascorbic acid (6) and may be reduced to the latter by the use of H,S and other reductants (14) The existence of ascorb...

Many instances of a close relationship between folic acid and ascorbic acid have been reported in the literature. Johnson and Dana (1) have shown that ascorbic acid relieves many of the abnormalities noted in a folic acid deficiency syndrome. Woodruff and Darby (2) have reported that folic acid aids in correcting the abnormal tyrosine metabolism of the scorbutic guinea pig. Nichol and Welch (3,...

Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) is an essential micronutrient that serves as an antioxidant and as a cofactor in many enzymatic reactions. Intestinal absorption and renal reabsorption of the vitamin is mediated by the epithelial apical L-ascorbic acid cotransporter SVCT1 (SLC23A1). We explored the molecular mechanisms of SVCT1-mediated L-ascorbic acid transport using radiotracer and voltage-clamp t...

Many instances of a close relationship between folic acid and ascorbic acid have been reported in the literature. Johnson and Dana (1) have shown that ascorbic acid relieves many of the abnormalities noted in a folic acid deficiency syndrome. Woodruff and Darby (2) have reported that folic acid aids in correcting the abnormal tyrosine metabolism of the scorbutic guinea pig. Nichol and Welch (3,...

BACKGROUND Erythorbic acid, a stereoisomer of ascorbic acid with similar physicochemical properties, is widely used as an antioxidant in processed foods. OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to evaluate the effect of erythorbic acid on iron absorption from ferrous sulfate at molar ratios of 2:1 and 4:1 (relative to iron) and to compare the effect of erythorbic acid directly with that...

to evaluate the effect of drought stress and foliar application of ascorbic acid on the growth and yield parameters of two varieties of sunflower pilot plant in the province of alborz as a split factorial in a randomized complete block design with four replications and treatments include: water stress (s) in three levels (s1) 70 mm evaporation from pan class a, (s2) 110 mm evaporation from pan ...

Human myeloid leukemia cells (HL-60) transport only the oxidized form of vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid) and accumulate the vitamin in the reduced form, ascorbic acid. We performed a detailed study of the role of glutathione in the intracellular trapping/accumulation of ascorbic acid in HL-60 cells. Uptake studies using HL-60 cells depleted of glutathione by treatment with L-buthionine-(S,R) s...

a pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of foliar spray of salicylic acid (0, 50, 100 ppm), ascorbic acid (0, 100, 200 ppm) and thiamine (0, 50, 100 ppm) on vegetative growth, flowering and photosynthetic pigments of marigold (calendula officinalis l.) plants at greenhouse of sb university of kerman, iran. results showed that application of salicylic acid and thiamine increased nu...