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In previous work, we found that ascorbic acid (AA) or ascorbate is present in the carotid body of the cat (Pokorski and Gonet, 1997), the animal that, as opposed to man and other primates, is capable of synthesizing ascorbate (Chatterjee, 1973). The content of ascorbate is decreased in the hypoxic carotid body, which implies the compound might be involved in the chemosensing process, although the determinants of such an involvement remain unraveled.
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Dymecka, A., Marczak, M., Ramadan, A., Suchocki, P., Pokorski, M. (2003). Ascorbate in the Carotid Body. In: Pequignot, JM., Gonzalez, C., Nurse, C.A., Prabhakar, N.R., Dalmaz, Y. (eds) Chemoreception. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 536. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9280-2_8
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