Glutathione (-l-glutamyl-l-cysteinyl-glycine) is a biologically abundant tripeptide that plays an important role in cellular detoxification via glutathione S-transferases, antioxidant defense, maintenance of thiol status, and modulation of cell proliferation [65,66,67]
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The uptake on ascorbate from the lumen of the small intestine as well as its transport into cells is the function of two Na + -dependent vitamin C co-transporters identified as SVCT1 and SVCT2
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