Vitamin E Deficiency

Frank vitamin E deficiency is rare and overt deficiency symptoms have not been found in healthy people who obtain little vitamin E from their diets. Premature babies of very low birth weight (<1,...

Vitamin B12

Vitamin A

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is necessary to form collagen; so is implicated in the synthesis of skin, scar tissue, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels, the healing of wounds, and for...

Vitamin A Toxicity

Phosphorylated Akt isoforms revealed as novel cancer biomarkers by Duolink

The PI3K/Akt signal transduction pathway plays an important role in cancer progression and cell survival. A recent paper from John Bartlett’s research group now describes the use of in situ PLA as a...

Mushrooms can provide as much vitamin D as supplements

Researchers have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or...

Vitamin D deficiency: an interview with Kellie Bilinski

We know that vitamin D is important in keeping bones strong. In the last 30-40 years it has also been realized that vitamin D has a lot of other roles in the body. Vitamin D essentially has a role in...

Study: Mushrooms provide as much vitamin D as supplements

BOSTON — Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hy...

Eating mushrooms can help increase, maintain vitamin D levels, find BUSM researchers

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin...

Nutrition: D-iabetes and D-eath D-efying vitamin D

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity and vitamin D deficiency are pandemic. Two new studies confirm the diabetes–vitamin D connection by demonstrating a >1.4-fold increase in risk of the metabol...

Vitamin D - How Much Is Too Much?

Vitamin D is vital for absorbing and maintaining calcium levels in the body, and therefore reducing the risk of fractures from falls and broken hips. Vitamin D is also beneficial for fighting cardiac...

Vitamin D Deficiency Likely Responsible For Flu Epidemic

Norwegian study: the vitamin has an antibiotic effect on the immune system Vitamin D deficiency is likely to blame for the flu epidemic that broke out last week in the Netherlands. The winter months a...

Isoforms of Vitamin E Differentially Regulate Inflammation.

Vitamin E regulation of disease has been extensively studied in humans, animal models and cell systems. Most of these studies focus on the α-tocopherol isoform of vitamin E. These reports indicate co...

The Level of Orally Ingested Vitamin C Affected the Expression of Vitamin C Transporters and Vitamin C Accumulation in the Livers of ODS Rats.

We investigated the effects of vitamin C administration on vitamin C-specific transporters in ODS/ShiJcl-od/od rat livers. The vitamin C-specific transporter levels increased in the livers of the rats...

Vitamin E isoforms directly bind PKCα and differentially regulate activation of PKCα

Vitamin E isoforms have opposing regulatory effects on leukocyte recruitment during inflammation. Furthermore, in vitro, vitamin E isoforms have opposing effects on leukocyte migration across endothel...

Hip fracture : assessment of fracture risk for treatment. Vitamin K and fracture.

Vitamin K is well known for its role in the synthesis of a number of blood coagulation factors. Vitamin K is also an important factor for bone metabolism via gamma-carboxylation of vitamin K-dependent...

Vitamin D content of food and its contribution to vitamin D status: a brief overview and Australian focus.

There are only a few natural foods that contain nutritionally significant quantities of vitamin D. These include egg yolk, some fatty fish, and in much lower concentrations, meat. The published values...