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Vitamin C
Vitamin C or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient required to allow a range of essential metabolic reactions in animals and plants, and widely known as the vitamin that prevents scurvy in humans. The pharmacophore of vitamin C is the ascorbate ion. In living organisms, ascorbate is an antioxidant, as it protects the body against oxidative [...]
