How could the studies be relevant? Animals produce their own vitamin C in their livers, and this neutralizes the chlorine dioxide. Humans don't produce their own, so it would work differently in the human body wouldn't it?
The majority of animals make their own Vitamin C in the liver. Ascorbic Acid is made by in enzyme in the liver. The Ascorbic Acid blends with available minerals in the liver and the mineral ascorbate, (Vitamin C with minerals) enters the blood stream.