...) and confer a poor prognosis. Nitric oxide appears to be important in the regulation of baroreflex control in health and in disease states. The antioxidant vitamin C increases nitric oxide bioavailability in CHF. We evaluated the effects of vitamin C on baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) by sequence analysis...

... The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society © 2000 2000 ascorbic acid CCl4 glutathione lipid peroxidation vitamin C vitamin E 315Clinical Science (2000) 99, 315 320 (Printed in Great Britain) S-Adenosylmethionine prevents hepatic tocopherol depletion in carbon tetrachloride-injured rats...

... by oral vitamin C administration. We looked for indices of a relationship between margination and P v i in man, using cigarette smoke inhalation as a pathophysiological challenge. We also examined the effect of prophylactic vitamin C on the response. Smoke inhalation was associated with highly significant...

... and muscle of diabetic rats 8 weeks after the intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin compared with that of the control group. These results demonstrate that an enhanced oxidative stress is caused in these tissues by diabetes. Vitamin C concentrations of the brain, heart, lung, liver, kidney and plasma...

... vitamin C vitamin E Clinical Science (1997) 92,36 1-365 (Printed in Great Britain) 36 I Combination oral antioxidant supplementation reduces blood pressure Helen F. GALLEY*, Judith THORNTON, Peter D. HOWDLE, Barry E. WALKER and Nigel R WEBSTER* Clinical Oxidant Research Group, St lames s University...

...C. J. Bates 1. Plasma and buffy-coat vitamin C, urinary proline, hydroxyproline, creatinine and total amino acid concentrations were measured in 23 healthy elderly subjects at intervals of 3 months. 2. There was a strong positive correlation between plasma vitamin C and buffy-coat vitamin C. 3...