Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Ascorbic acid or vitamin C

                                              Ascorbic acid or vitamin C

Vitamin C is also having the name ascorbic acid. It is an essential nutrient for human and other animal species.  Vitamin C is a co factor in atleast 8 enzymatic reactions.
When dis functional it can cause the most severe symptoms of disease scurvy.  In animals, ascorbic acid is most important in wound healing and preventing bleeding from capillaries. Ascorbic acid is a weak sugar acid structurally related to glucose.
The molecules of acid have vitamin C activity ; therefore and are used synonimously with vitamin C , unless otherwise specified.  The deficiency of Vitamin C leads to disease Scurvy . Without this vitamin , the synthesised collagen is too unstable to perform its function.
Scurvy leads to the formation of brown spots on the skin , spongy gums and bleeding from all the membranes.  the person with ailment looks pale , depressed and is partially immobilized. Vitamin C is found in higher concentrations in immune cells.
But it is not certain that how vitamin C interacts with immune cells. 

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