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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 34, 24-33, Copyright © 1981 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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The antiscorbutic action of L-ascorbic acid and D-isoascorbic acid (erythorbic acid) in the guinea pig

HM Goldman, BS Gould and HN Munro

Female guinea pigs were fed a scorbutigenic diet supplemented with either L-ascorbic acid or D-isoascorbic acid or combinations of these. Their responses were judged by changes in body weight, serum alkaline phosphatase levels, wound healing, and tooth structure. Large additions (100 mg daily) of D-isoascorbic acid to the scorbutigenic diet resulted in normal growth over a 7-wk period and normal serum alkaline phosphatase levels, tooth structure development, and collagen formation after wounding. The addition of 0.5 or 5.0 mg of L-ascorbic acid to this high D-isoascorbic diet improved neither growth rate nor collagen deposition during wound healing. On the basis of changes in tooth structure, D-isoascorbic acid has 1/20 the potency of L-ascorbic acid. Its effect is additive to subminimal maintenance levels of L-ascorbic acid implying that there is no competitive inhibition in the utilization of the two compounds. The relatively weak activity of D- isoascorbic acid is probably due to poor transport to the tissues and ineffective binding to functional sites. This explains why the onset of scurvy is much more rapid after withdrawal of D-isoascorbic acid from the diet when it had been the sole antiscorbutic dietary constituent. It is concluded that D-isoascorbic acid is a "weakly" antiscorbutic agent on the basis that it is both poorly absorbed and retained by the tissue; that in fact it may, to the degree that it is taken up by the tissues and retained, be equal in antiscorbutic potency to L-ascorbic acid.


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