Science Based Nutrition

February 28, 2010

Staying alive: Insufficient vitamin C causes perinatal lethality in mice

Filed under: Main Content — ScienceDaily: Dietary Supplement News @ 10:00 pm

Vitamin C is indispensible for life. We obtain all our vitamin C from out diet and several tightly regulated processes control our vitamin C levels. One protein involved in this is Slc23a1, but its in vivo importance has not been determined. However, researchers have now identified several crucial functions for Slc23a1 in mice: it is involved in absorption of vitamin C by the kidney and in perinatal survival.

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