Component
Fetal blood ascorbate concentration
Fetal blood ascorbate concentration
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
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What it does
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What acts on it
Maternal prenatal ascorbic-acid supplementation did not raise fetal blood ascorbate in SVCT2-null mouse fetuses.
Experimental context and source evidence
- availability_state
- machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.
- cross_nutrient
- false
- experimental_model
- SVCT2-null mouse embryos, newborns and embryonic fibroblasts
- exposure
- Prenatal maternal supplementation with SVCT2-null fetuses
- limitations
- Supports a placental transport role but is not a placenta-specific deletion; dose is not resolved in the accessible abstract.
- nutrient_topic
- Vitamin C research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Vitamin C
- organism
- Mus musculus
- plain_language
- Increasing maternal supply did not overcome the fetus’s missing SVCT2 machinery.
- primary_references
- [sotiriou2002] Ascorbic-acid transporter Slc23a1 is essential for vitamin C transport into the brain and for perinatal survival. (2002). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11984597/ DOI: 10.1038/0502-514
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Placenta/fetal blood
- trigger_kind
- machinery_impairment Imported condition classification; unverified.
Vitamin C: mechanisms, deficiency and nutrient interactions (2026-09-17) · lines 234–245
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · SVCT2-null mouse embryos, newborns and embryonic fibroblasts · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### vc-transport-svct2-prenatal-nonrescue Maternal prenatal ascorbic-acid supplementation did not raise fetal blood ascorbate in SVCT2-null mouse fetuses. Condition category: machinery_impairment nutrient_topic: Vitamin C research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Increasing maternal supply did not overcome the fetus’s missing SVCT2 machinery. organism: Mus musculus tissue_or_cell_type: Placenta/fetal blood experimental_model: SVCT2-null mouse embryos, newborns and embryonic fibroblasts limitations: Supports a placental transport role but is not a placenta-specific deletion; dose is not resolved in the accessible abstract. exposure: Prenatal maternal supplementation with SVCT2-null fetuses cross_nutrient: false [sotiriou2002] Ascorbic-acid transporter Slc23a1 is essential for vitamin C transport into the brain and for perinatal survival. (2002). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11984597/ DOI: 10.1038/0502-514
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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