Introduction / Lester Packer and Jurgen Fuchs -- 1. A History of Scurvy and Vitamin C / Howerde E. Sauberlich -- 2. An Overview of Ascorbic Acid Chemistry and Biochemistry / Constance S. Tsao -- 3. Antioxidant and Prooxidant Properties of Vitamin C / Barry Halliwell and Matthew Whiteman -- 4. The Vitamin C Radical and Its Reactions / Wolf Bors and Garry R. Buettner -- 5. Vitamin C and Redox Cycling Antioxidants / Lester Packer -- 6. Regeneration of Vitamin C / William W. Wells and Che-Hun Jung -- 7. Protein Glycation by the Oxidation Products of Ascorbic Acid / Beryl J. Ortwerth and Vincent M. Monnier -- 8. Ascorbate Membrane Transport Properties / Richard C. Rose and John X. Wilson -- 9. Vitamin C as an Antiatherogen: Mechanisms of Action / Balz Frei -- 10. Protection of Human Low-Density Lipoprotein from Oxidative Modification by Vitamin C / Etsuo Niki and Noriko Noguchi
