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In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal • 2007 | View Paper
“ Ascorbate supplementation (50 micrograms/mL) to confluent fibroblasts cultured from the two patients and controls increased hydroxyprolyl and hydroxylysyl residues of fibroblasts four to seven and three to four-fold respectively.”
“Urinary excretion of hydroxylysine and hydroxyproline increased during ascorbate administration.”
Metabolism: clinical and experimental • 1987 | View Paper
“Only when the ascorbate concentration in the tissue was less than 6 micrograms/g wet weight (compared with 50-70 micrograms/g wet weight in fresh tissue), was hydroxyproline formation reduced by 75-85%.”
“Addition of ascorbate to the cultures increased the rate of synthesis of procollagen hydroxyproline , but the effect was not explained by activation of prolyl hydroxylase as has been seen in other cell cultures.”
“There have been many reports”-l-* that the amount of hydroxyproline formed by cultured fibroblasts and osteoblasts is increased by treatment with ascorbate.”