So if we were mouse doctors, we would just call it, we would just call it ascorbic acid.

Dr. Agus Exactly. If we were mice, we'd call it ascorbic acid too!

So in a mouse, it wouldn't be called vitamin C, it would just be called ascorbic acid.

It's a pretty cool molecule because the Vitamin C that you eat is called ascorbic acid, and in order to get it into cells, it has to be converted into another molecule called dehydroascorbic acid.