Handbook of Vitamins, Third Edition (Cnh Clinical Nutrition in Health and Disease)

Univ. of California, Davis. Complete source of vitamin function summaries. Covers water and fat-soluble vitamins, evaluation methods for nutritional deficiency, and the safety of high levels of vitamin use. For nutritionists, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals. Previous edition: c1991.

Features a comprehensive summary of the chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships of all recognized vitamins!

Maintaining the standards of excellence set forth in the previous editions, the Handbook of Vitamins, Third Edition presents a thorough examination of the fundamental characteristics, functions, and roles of vitamins in human health.

Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest advances in analytical and separation methodologies!

Offering a compendium of authoritative, current knowledge on the nature and function of each known nutrient, the Third Edition discusses....

• improvements in the methodology, isolation, identification, and the synthesis of vitamins
  
• the chemistry, metabolism, and biochemical functions of vitamins
  
• vitamin interactions with environmental factors, drugs, alcohol, and smoking
  
• vitamins in disease prevention and health promotion
  
• the efficacy and hazards of high vitamin dosages
  
• and more!
  New sections cover...
  
• the roles vitamins play as catalysts, cellular regulators, and co-substrates
  
• biochemical markers for vitamin deficiency and groups at risk
  
• the relationship of B12 and folate metabolism to homocysteine regulation, and the possible connections of homocysteine to vascular diseases and developmental defects
  
• new roles for vitamins A, K, and D, and the role of vitamin E and flavonoids in oxidant defense Containing over 2800 literature references and 150 illustrations and tables, the Handbook of Vitamins, Third Edition serves as an indisputably valuable reference for human and animal nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists and technologists, biochemists, organic and analytical chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, physiologists, physicians in general practice, and makes an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Cover......Page 1 Preface......Page 7 Contents......Page 11 Contributors......Page 13 1. Vitamin A......Page 17 2. Vitamin D......Page 67 3. Vitamin K......Page 131 4. Vitamin E......Page 181 5. Bioorganic Mechanisms Important to Coenzyme Functions......Page 215 6. Niacin......Page 229 7. Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)......Page 271 8. Thiamine......Page 291 9. Pantothenic Acid......Page 333 10. Vitamin B6......Page 355 11. Biotin......Page 413 12. Folic Acid......Page 443 13. Cobalamin......Page 479 14. Choline......Page 529 15. Ascorbic Acid......Page 545 16. Ascorbic Acid Regulation of Extracellular Matrix Expression......Page 571 17. Nutrients and Oxidation......Page 585 Index......Page 605 Features a summary of the chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships of various recognized vitamins. This book examines the fundamental characteristics, functions, and roles of vitamins in human health. Probably the first nutritional deficiency disease to be clearly recognized was night blindness.