Abstract:EDITORIALIn this issue of CLINICS, the cover illustrates data from a basic science piece of research conducted by Higa et al who determined the protective effects of ascorbic acid on intestinal morphology during ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Villous architecture, crypts, necrosis, hemorrhagic infarcts and inflammatory cells at the mesenteric and antimesenteric borders of the small intestine were quantitatively evaluated. Ascorbic acid caused (i) a significant reduction of antimesenteric villous hemorrha… Show more
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