Definitions

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  • noun A salt of ascorbic acid.

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  • noun organic chemistry Any salt or ester of ascorbic acid

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ascorb(ic acid) + –ate.]

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  • High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight an ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight an ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight an ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • There is no vitamin C whatsoever in grits, a fact that would upset Can's Damo Suzuki, who clearly believed vegetable-friendly L-ascorbate had special powers.

    Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results Rob Fitzpatrick 2010

  • “DNA damage induced by reactions of uranyl acetate with ascorbate.”

    Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

  • Here is a list from one package: sodium phosphates, sodium ascorbate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, potassium lactate, sodium diacetate.

    Casein Not in All Sodium Steve Carper 2008

  • A peroxidase/phenolics/ascorbate system can scavenge hydrogen peroxide in plants.

    Effects of ultraviolet-B on forest vegetation in the Arctic 2009

  • Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice.

    Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

  • As modalities in cancer are often combined, these data suggest that pharmacologic ascorbate in combination with other therapies deserves further exploration for treatment of cancers that otherwise have poor outcomes, such as pancreatic and ovarian carcinomas and glioblastoma.

    Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

  • Nevertheless, Chen et al. end their paper on a cautiously optimistic note:Although our preclinical mouse data showed that tumor growth was significantly decreased Fig. 2, the use of pharmacologic ascorbate as a single agent was not curative.

    Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008

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