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. 2014 Apr 29;6(5):1809–1822. doi: 10.3390/nu6051809

Table 2.

Biochemical results from plasma and brain.

Biochemical results CTRL REPL DEF Effect
Plasma VitC (nmol/mL) 51.8 ± 22.4 a 57.3 ± 13.6 a 4.0 ± 3.2 b ***
Plasma DHA% (% of total VitC) 10.2 ± 4.9 a 7.7 ± 2.2 a 19.1 ± 3.8 b ***
Brain VitC (nmol/g tissue) 1399 ± 143 a 1498 ± 42 a 495 ± 252 b ***
Brain DHA% (% of total VitC) 4.5 ± 2.8 a 3.1 ± 2.2 a 9.5 ± 4.6 b ***
Brain MDA (nmol/g tissue) 313 ± 124 a 258 ± 58.9 a 476 ±106 b ***
Brain GSH (nmol/g tissue) 1348 ± 112 1407 ± 44.6 1341 ± 101.0 -

Biochemistry results of CTRL, REPL, and DEF guinea pigs from brain and plasma following a prenatal VitC deficiency and subsequent two months postnatal repletion or deficiency, compared to pre-and postnatally sufficient controls. Effect of VitC diet between three groups by one way ANOVA marked *** p < 0.0001. All values are presented as means ± SD. Values with different superscript letters are significantly different (i.e., “a” is different from “b”).