dehydroascorbate; dehydroascorbic acid

Physiology

• reversibly oxidized form of ascorbic acid
• has vitamin C activity on ingestion in humans
• readily crosses the blood brain barrier where it is converted to ascorbate (ascorbate not able to cross blood-brain barrier)
  • ascorbate levels in brain exceed those in blood 10-fold
• transported by GLUT1

Laboratory

• dehydroascorbate in serum/plasma

More general terms

• sugar acid

Additional terms

• ascorbate; ascorbic acid; vitamin C

Database

• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=44067