| Literature DB >> 357320 |
Abstract
The role of ascorbic acid is reviewed with regard to antimicrobial activity, interferon production, and humoral and cellular immune responses. Ascorbic acid appears to play a role in a number of neutrophil functions including increased chemotaxis, increased particulate ingestion, enhanced lysozyme-mediated non-oxidative killing, protection against the toxic effects of superoxide anion radical, inhibition of the halide-peroxide-myeloperoxidase system without a pronounced bactericidal effect, and stimulation of the hexose monophosphate shunt.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID: 357320
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Vitam Nutr Res ISSN: 0300-9831 Impact factor: 1.784