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Antioxidant Property of Vitamin C - in Comparison with Vitamin B1  

Seo, Du-Kyo (Department of Biochemistry, College of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University)
Kim, Jeong-Hee (Department of Biochemistry, College of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University)
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International Journal of Oral Biology / v.30, no.4, 2005 , pp. 117-123 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various aspects of antioxidant activity in vitamin C were evaluated in this study. Relatively high level of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity was detected in vitamin C, but not in non-antioxidative vitamin, vitamin B1. Vitamin C also reduced the production of lipid peroxidation in Chinese hamster lung fibroblast (V79-4) cells with $IC_{50}$ value of $4{\mu}g/ml$. Vitamin B1 showed comparable reduction in lipid peroxidation products ($IC_{50}$ value was about $10{\mu}g/ml$). It was shown that vitamin C also dose-dependently enhanced the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in V79-4 cells, and these effects were not observed in vitamin Bl-treated cells. Our data suggest that well-known antioxidant vitamin C involved in direct activation of SOD, CAT and GPX.
Keywords
Vitamin C; Radical scavenging; Lipid peroxidation; Antioxidant enzymes;
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