Water Soluble Vitamins Clinical Research and Future Application /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stanger, Olaf (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Subcellular Biochemistry, 56
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1. Biotin: Biochemical, Physiological and Clinical Aspects
• 2. Niacin status and genomic instability in bone marrow cells; Mechanisms favoring the progression of leukemogenesis
• 3. Niacin: Vitamin and Antidyslipidemic Drug
• 4. Beyond the antioxidant: the double life of vitamin C
• 5. Vitamin C in Sepsis
• 6. Vitamin C transport and its role in the central nervous system
• 7. Genetic aspects of folate metabolism
• 8. Enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidative effects of folic acid and its reduced derivates
• 9. Folate-linked drugs for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases
• 10. Folate in Skin Cancer Prevention
• 11. Thiamin(E): The spark of life
• 12. Riboflavin in development and cell fate
• 13. Vitamins B6 and Cancer
• 14. Vitamin B6 and cardiovascular disease
• 15
• Vitamin B6: Beyond coenzyme functions
• 16
• Cobalamin Deficiency
• 17. Biochemistry of B12-Cofactors in Human Metabolism
• 18. Physiological and molecular aspects of cobalamin transport
• Index.