Figure 1.

Effect of vitamin C on adipocyte differentiation from bovine stromal vascular cells derived from perirenal adipose tissue (Torii et al., 1998). Mean±SE for cultures derived from three different donors. * Mean differs from that of the control culture (no vitamin C added) (p<0.05). Vitamin C was supplied as ascorbyl-2-phosphate. The specific activity of gycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) was used as a biochemical index of differentiation. The arrow shows the range of the plasma vitamin C concentration observed in beef cattle (see Figure 4).