DOSE-DEPENDENT ABSORPTION AND EXCRETION OF VITAMIN-C IN HUMANS
DOSE-DEPENDENT ABSORPTION AND EXCRETION OF VITAMIN-C IN HUMANS
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DOI:
10.1016/0378-5173(86)90216-4
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发表时间:
1986-07-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
CHANG, CJ
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作者:
MELETHIL, S;MASON, WD;CHANG, CJ
Four subjects ingested 500, 1000 and 2000 mg of ascorbic acid daily for one week according to a three-way crossover design. Following the last dose, serial urine and plasma samples were obtained over a 12-h period. The ascorbic acid content of these samples were determined by an HPLC method employing electrochemical detection. The plasma concentration-time profiles are similar at all 3 doses, with the area under the curve values (mean .+-. S.D.) being 206.0 .+-. 50.5, 212.1 .+-. 40.7, and 231.8 .+-. 52.6 mg .cntdot. h/l for the 500, 1000 and 2000 mg doses. The corresponding percents (mean .+-. S.D.) of dose recovered in urine are 73.2 .+-. 25.7, 46.9 .+-. 21.7 and 35.8 .+-. 12.4. This decrease in recovery is significantly different (P < 0.05) between the 500 mg dose and the two higher doses. Renal clearance increases in proportion to plasma ascorbic acid in the concentration range (10-40 mg/l) encountered in the study. Results from this study indicate that both gastrointestinal absorption and renal tubular reabsorption of vitamin C are saturable processes. Therefore, (1) the validity of previous studies which have used linear pharmacokinetic analyses and (2) the systemic effects to be derived from megadoses of the vitamin administered orally are open to question.