Vitamin C crosses the blood-brain barrier in the oxidized form through the glucose transporters.

Vitamin C concentrations in the brain exceed those in blood by 10-fold. In both tissues, the vitamin is present primarily in the reduced form, ascorbic acid. We identified the chemical form of vitamin C that readily crosses the blood-brain barrier, and the mechanism of this process. Ascorbic acid wa...

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Hauptverfasser: Agus, D B, Gambhir, S S, Pardridge, W M, Spielholz, C, Baselga, J, Vera, J C, Golde, D W
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1997
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC508490/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9389750
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