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What was written by James Lind in 1753, that showed that scurvy was easily treated with citrus fruits?

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Treatise of the Scurvy

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What do plants synthesize Vitamin C from?

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glucose & fructose

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Most mammals can synthesize Vitamin C from glucose in their…

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liver or kidneys

  • Most mammals: dogs, cats, mice, cows, horses
  • Reptiles
  • Amphibians
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Why can’t mammals synthesize Vitamin C?

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Lack the enzyme to convert glucose to Vitamin C

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Where is fat soluble Vitamin C stored in the body? (3)

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  • Adrenal gland
  • Pituitary gland
  • Eyes
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Vitamin C = ________ = ascorbate

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L-ascorbic acid

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L-ascorbic acid (ascorbate) is what kind of acid?

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  • Weak acid

- 6 carbon alpha-ketolactone

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Vitamin C can donate what to other compounds which are at risk of becoming oxidized.

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2 electrons

  • Vitamin C is an electron donor, which makes it a reducing agent
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Why is Vitamin C known as an outstanding antioxidant?

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  • Its reduction potential as an electron donor is very high.

- Readily “gives up” electrons

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How is Vitamin C assessed?

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Serum Ascorbic Acid levels

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Serum Ascorbic Acid levels are …

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Dose-dependent

*No further increase following additional doses of VIt. C

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What is Serum Ascorbic Acid levels lowered by? (7)

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  • Smoking
  • Oral contraceptive use (birth control)
  • Cold
  • Fever
  • Acute or chronic stress
  • Infection
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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What 2 ways can Vitamin C be absorbed?

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Active transport & Simple diffusion

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Where does the active transport of Vitamin C occur?

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Active transport occurs through out the small intestine.

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Simple diffusion of Vitamin C occurs with?

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Simple diffusion occurs with higher intake of Vitamin C

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Absorption of Vitamin C is modulated by what?

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Glucose transporters (GLUT)

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What form of Vitamin C is typically absorbed more in the lumen?

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Dehydroascorbate

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Dehydroascorbic acid (DHAA) is converted to ascorbate in enterocytes via?

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DHAA reductase

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In what form does Vitamin C circulate?

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Freely, unbound to any proteins

*Water-soluble nutrient available for cellular transport and accumulation inside tissues.

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Vitamin C is uptaken into cells via?

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SVCT1 & SVCT2 - sodium-dependent Vitamin C transporters

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Both SVCTs are dependent on what?

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Na & ATP

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Neither of the SVCTs transport …

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Dehydroascorbic acid

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In what forms is Vitamin C excreted as?

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intact or in form of metabolites

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Where does the metabolism of Vitamin C occur?

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Liver & also kidney

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What are the final excretory products of Vitamin C metabolism? (2)
Oxalic acid & 4-C threonic acid
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Vitamin C can also be excreted as ...
A variety of 5-C sugars | - Xylose, xylonate, lyxonate
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Ascorbic acid concentrations in plasma are tightly regulated by what?
Kidney
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What patients is Vitamin C excretion problematic?
End-stage renal disease
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Why is Vitamin C excretion problematic in patients with end-stage renal disease?
Due to lack of glomerular filtration
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In patients with end-stage renal disease Vitamin C doses higher than 200mg can accumulate and produce?
hyperoxalemia
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Why do dialysis patients often have chronically low plasma Vitamin C concentrations?
To prevent to much oxalate formation in the blood. | * hyperoxalemia
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Vitamin C is required as a cofactor for how many different enzymes?
8
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What are the 2 families of enzymes that require Vitamin C as a cofactor?
Monooxygenases & Dioxygenases
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What incorporates a single oxygen molecule into a substrate?
Monooxygenases
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What enzyme is responsible for: | Dopamine -> Norepinephrine synthesis
Dopamine Beta-monooxygenases
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What incorporates molecular oxygen (O2) into a substrate?
Dioxygenases
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Dioxygenases adds hydroxyl groups to ____ or ____.
Proline or lysine
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Adding hydroxyl groups to proline or lysine for the ...
formation of collagen molecule
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Dioxygenases are used in the biosynthesis of ...
Carnitine
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What is carnitine is essential for?
Fatty acid transport into mitochondria
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Dioxygenases are used in the metabolism of?
Tyrosine
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What symptoms are related to the impaired function of these two families of enzymes? * (Especially in impairment of collagen formation)
Scurvy symptoms
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Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant by preventing intracellular?
Protein oxidation
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The prevention of intracellular protein oxidation is relevant in which tissues with high oxidant production?
- Neutrophils - Monocytes - Macrophages
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The prevention of intracellular protein oxidation is relevant in which tissues with high oxygen concentrations?
- Lungs | - Tissues of the eye exposed to light
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Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant extracellularly by preventing?
Oxidant-mediated damage extracellularly
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Vitamin C prevents oxidant-mediated damage extracellularly by quenching ... (2)
- Aqueous peroxyl radicals | - Lipid peroxidation products (rancid fats)
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Vitamin C is preferentially used before what? (3)
- Tocopherols (Vit. E) - Bilirubin - Uric acid
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Vitamin C affects several pathways involved in what?
Atherogenesis
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Vitamin C protects LDL from what?
Metal catalyzed oxidation * Hypothesized to be an initiating factor in atherogenesis
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Vitamin C can regenerate oxidized ...
alpha - tocopherol (Vitamin E)
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Vitamin C affects several pathways involved in atherogenesis, and can decrease ...
Lipid peroxidation
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Vitamin C can decrease adhesion of ______ to endothelium of vascular system?
Monocytes
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Vitamin C can decrease aggregation of ______ & _______.
Platelets and leukocytes
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Vitamin C can quench oxidants that 'leak' from activated ______ or ______, which prevents damage to supporting tissues such as collagen and surrounding fibroblasts.
Neutrophils or macrophages
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Vitamin C is involved in cholesterol degradation for ...
Bile acid synthesis
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What retards cholesterol transformation into bile acids?
Vitamin C deficiency
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What has been implicated as a risk factor in CVD?
Hypovitaminosis C
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Vitamin C is involved in the conversion of folacin to
Tetrahydrofolate (THF)
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Vitamin C is involved in the synthesis of
adrenal tissue steroids (noradrenaline)
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Vitamin C helps iron absorption by ...?
- reducing ferric to ferrous form | - and is involved in transfer from plasma transferrin to liver ferritin
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Vitamin C improves immune response by increasing? (4)
- Immunologic activity of leukocytes - Interferon production - Integrity of mucous membrane - Processes of inflammatory reactions
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What was found to be lower in HIV subjects?
Plasma ascorbate
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What treatment is commonly used in HIV subjects?
Interferon treatment
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Tolerable upper limit was set due to what at higher doses?
Gi adverse affects
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Who is at risk for deficiency? (3)
- Smokers - Individuals with limited food variety - Females using oral contraceptives
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Smokers have lower ____ & _____ vitamin C levels, and require additional 35mg/day of vitamin C.
plasma & leukocyte
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What are the best sources of vitamin C?
Fruits and vegetables
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What are the earliest symptoms of scurvy?
Weakness & lassitude (a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy)
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A symptom of vitamin C deficiency results in an autoimmune disease in which sufferers experience dry mouth & dry eyes.
Sjogren's Syndrome
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Ingestion of 3g of Vitamin C or more per day can cause what? (4)
- Osmotic diarrhea - Bloating - Hyperuricosuria - Iron overload in certain cases
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Presence of excessive amounts of uric acid in urine, associated with kidney stones.
Hyperuricosuria

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