PMID: 2497592Mar 1, 1989Paper

Ascorbic acid in a New World monkey family: species difference and influence of stressors on ascorbic acid metabolism

Zeitschrift für Ernährungswissenschaft
C I Flurer, H Zucker

Abstract

Like other simian primates, the New World monkey Callithrix jacchus, marmoset, and Saguinus fuscicollis, tamarin, require ascorbic acid as an essential nutrient. For adult marmosets, a daily intake of 15 mg/kg metabolic body weight was found to be necessary to obtain a serum level above the kidney threshold. A survey of the serum ascorbic acid level of marmosets and tamarins in a breeding colony resulted in a vast divergence between the two species, indicating a higher ascorbic acid requirement for tamarins. Unaccustomed trial conditions or additional stressors resulted in a higher catabolism of ascorbic acid to CO2 in both species, measured with 14C labeled material, compared to a higher rate of renal excretion when the animals were accustomed to the metabolic cage. These isotope excretion studies suggest a different metabolic behavior of ascorbic acid in the two species. This is supposedly caused by a higher sensitivity of the tamarins when subjected to the same conditions as marmosets.

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