CellWell record HH-18815
Ascorbic acid protects against endogenous oxidative DNA damage in human sperm.
Fraga CG; Motchnik PA; Shigenaga MK; Helbock HJ; Jacob RA; Ames BN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ยท 1991
In plain language
In healthy men, seminal fluid vitamin C levels correlated inversely with oxidative DNA damage in sperm, and cutting dietary vitamin C from 250 to 5 mg daily nearly doubled this sperm DNA damage marker within weeks.
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- Human
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