Vitamin C can reduce apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells and prevent the instability of plaques (Lehr et al
Some examples of the carrier-mediated transporters include the glucose carrier 1 (GLUT1), the LAT1/2, cationic amino acid transporter 1 and 3 (CAT1/3), the monocarboxylic acid carrier 1 and 8 (MCT1/8), the fatty acid transport protein 1 and 4 (FATP1/4), the sodium-independent concentrative nucleoside transporter-2 (CNT2), the organic cation transporter 2 (OCTN2), the OAT3, and the organic anion transporting peptides (OATP1C1, OATP1A4, OATP2B1) [12]
antioxidant potential, physiological function and role in disease
Neelakantan et al., Biochemical Pharmacology, 2018, gave diet-induced obese mice the compound and reported it significantly reduced body weight and white adipose mass, decreased adipocyte size, with food intake unchanged (PMID 29155147) [3]