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dehydroascorbate; dehydroascorbic acid

Physiology: - reversibly oxidized form of ascorbic acid - has vitamin C activity on ingestion in humans - readily crosses the blood brain barrier where it is converted to ascorbate (ascorbate not able to cross blood-brain barrier) - ascorbate levels in brain exceed those in blood 10-fold [2] - transported by GLUT1 [2] Laboratory: - dehydroascorbate in serum/plasma

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ascorbate; ascorbic acid; vitamin C

General

sugar acid

Database Correlations

PUBCHEM cid=44067

References

  1. Loinc
  2. PubChem: 44067