Water Soluble Vitamins Clinical Research and Future Application /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stanger, Olaf (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 56
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Medical biochemistry.; Oxidative stress.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medical Biochemistry.; Oxidative Stress.; Human Physiology.

The discovery of vitamins in the early 1900s, their later chemical characterization and the clarification of pivotal metabolic functions are sequential aspects of a brilliant chapter in the history of modern nutritional sciences and medicine. The name, derived from “vital-amines”, indicates their el...