Description
Vitamin C holds a unique place in scientific and cultural history. In this book, a group of leading scientific researchers describe new insights into the myriad ways vitamin C is employed during normal physiological functioning. In addition, the text provides an extensive overview of the following: the rationale for utilizing vitamin C in the clinic, updates on recent uses of vitamin C in cancer treatment through high-dose intravenous therapies, the role vitamin C plays in the treatment of sepsis and infectious disease, management of the ways vitamin C can improve stem cell differentiation, as well as vitamin C use in other important health situations.
Features
- Includes chapters from a team of leading international scholars
- Reviews the history and recent research on the functions, benefits, and uses of vitamin C
- Focuses special attention on the way vitamin C can be used in the treatment of cancers
- Discusses how vitamin C can be employed against infectious disease
About the Author
Qi Chen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas, City, USA.
Margareet C.M. Vissers, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science at the University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032175256
Author Qi Chen
Format Paperback
Page Count 268
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 526g