Although a dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) activity had long been known to exist in plants, it was found to be low or absent in chloroplasts (Foyer and Halliwell 1976)
Still, the normal, booster-treated or disease-related levels of NADs or glutathiones are not well known in humans
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