ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Vitamin C as a Modulator of the Response to Cancer Therapy.
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- Pooled it
- Rethinking Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Integrative Genomics, Immunotherapy, and Molecular-Orthomolecular Strategies.Cancers · 2026Review
- Vitamins and minerals and their role in cancer: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Biochemical mechanisms and molecular interactions of vitamins in cancer therapy.Cancer pathogenesis and therapy · 2025Review
- Genetic Analysis of Vitamin C Content in Rapeseed Seedlings by the Major Gene Plus Polygene Mixed Effect Model.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- The Involvement of Ascorbic Acid in Cancer Treatment.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Pan-cancer analysis of SLC2A family genes as prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Targeted Metabolomics Highlights Dramatic Antioxidant Depletion, Increased Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress and Altered Purine and Pyrimidine Concentrations in Serum of Primary Myelofibrosis Patients.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- From Antioxidant to Anticancer is Vitamin C Effective in Colorectal Cancer?Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Article
- Trimetazidine Alleviates Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis by Targeting the Long Noncoding RNA CBR3-AS1-Mediated miRNA-29 and Resistin-Like Molecule alpha 1: Deciphering a Novel Trifecta Role of LncRNA CBR3-AS1/miRNA-29/FIZZ1 Axis in Lung Fibrosis.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Article
- Mutagenesis selection and large-scale cultivation of non-greenFrontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- The association between dietary vitamin C intake and periodontitis: result from the NHANES (2009-2014).BMC oral health · 2022Article
- The Variable Nature of Vitamin C-Does It Help When Dealing with Coronavirus?Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Hyperthermia Treatment as a Promising Anti-Cancer Strategy: Therapeutic Targets, Perspective Mechanisms and Synergistic Combinations in Experimental Approaches.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Impact of Diets on Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs) Therapy against Tumors.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Article
- Oxidative Stress and Hyper-Inflammation as Major Drivers of Severe COVID-19 and Long COVID: Implications for the Benefit of High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Glucose transporters: Important regulators of endometrial cancer therapy sensitivity.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Ascorbate: antioxidant and biochemical activities and their importance for in vitro models.Archives of toxicology · 2021Review
- Any Role of High-Dose Vitamin C for Septic Shock in 2021?Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has been gaining attention as a potential treatment for human malignancies. Various experimental studies have shown the ability of pharmacological doses of vitamin C alone or in combinations with clinically used drugs to exert beneficial effects in various models of human cancers. Cytotoxicity of high doses of vitamin C in cancer cells appears to be related to excessive reactive oxygen species generation and the resulting suppression of the energy production via glycolysis. A hallmark of cancer cells is a strongly upregulated aerobic glycolysis, which elevates its relative importance as a source of ATP (Adenosine 5'-triphosphate). Aerobic glycolysis is maintained by a highly increased uptake of glucose, which is made possible by the upregulated expression of its transporters, such as GLUT-1, GLUT-3, and GLUT-4. These proteins can also transport the oxidized form of vitamin C, dehydroascorbate, permitting its preferential uptake by cancer cells with the subsequent depletion of critical cellular reducers as a result of ascorbate formation. Ascorbate also has a potential to affect other aspects of cancer cell metabolism due to its ability to promote reduction of iron(III) to iron(II) in numerous cellular metalloenzymes. Among iron-dependent dioxygenases, important targets for stimulation by vitamin C in cancer include prolyl hydroxylases targeting the hypoxia-inducible factors HIF-1/HIF-2 and histone and DNA demethylases. Altered metabolism of cancer cells by vitamin C can be beneficial by itself and promote activity of specific drugs.
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