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Vitamin C Crucial to Collagen Synthesis

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:52 am
by ofonorow
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698725
The effect of growth factors on both collagen synthesis and tensile strength of engineered human ligaments.

The predicted optimal growth media (50 μg/ml TGFβ, IGF-1, and GDF-7 and 200 μm ascorbic acid) was then validated in two separate trials: showing a 5.7-fold greater MTL and 5.2-fold more collagen than a minimal media.

Re: Vitamin C Crucial to Collagen Synthesis

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:39 am
by Dolev
The researchers should now try to interpret the data as to what it could mean to us "in vivo" types.