Vitamins

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Answer

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A component of visual pigment.

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Vit A

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Maintenance of specialized epithelia

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Vit A

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Maintenance of resistance to infection

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Vit A

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Facilitates intesting absorption of calcium and pohsphorus and mineralization of bone

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Vit D

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Major antioxidant; scavenges free radicals

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Vit E

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Cofactor in hepatic carboxylation of procoagulatns0 facts II, VII, IX, X; and protein C and protein S.

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Vit K

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Required for glycolysis, TCA cycle, Hexosmonophosphate shunt, and branched chain AA dehydrogenase

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Vit B1 (Thiamine)

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Cofactor in oxidation and reduction

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Vit B2 (Riboflavin)

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Constituent of NAD+, NADP+ (in redox reactions); derived from tryptophan

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Vit B3 (Niacin)

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A cofactor used in transamination (eg ALT and AST), decarboxylation reactions, glycogen phosphorylase, and heme synthesis

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Vit B6 (Pyridoxine)

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Required for normal folate metabolism DNA synthesis.

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Vit B12 (Cobalamin)

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Maintenance of myelinization of spinal cord tracts

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Vit B12 (Cobalamin)

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Serves in many oxidation-reduction reacctions and hydroxylation of collagen

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Vit C

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Essential for transfer and use of one0carbon units in DNA synthesis

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Folate

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Incorporated into coenzyme A

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Pantothenic acid

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Cofactor in carboxylation reactions

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Biotin

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Deficiency causes: Night blindness, xeropththalmia, blindness

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Vit A

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Deficiency causes: Squamous metaplasia

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Vit A

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Deficiency causes:Vulnerability to infection, particularly measles

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Vit A

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Deficiency causes: Rickets in children

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Vit D

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Deficiency causes: Osteomalacia in adults

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Vit D

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Deficiency causes: Spinocerebellar degeneration

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Vit E

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Deficiency causes: Bleeding diathesis

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Vit K

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Deficiency causes: Dry and wet berriberi, Wernicke syndrome, Korsakoff syndrome

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Vit B1

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Deficiency causes: Ariboflavinosis, cheilosis, stomatitis, glossitis, dermatitis, corneal vascularization

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Vit B2

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Deficiency causes: Pellagra "3 D's": Demention, dermatitis, diarrhea

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Vit B3

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Deficiency causes: Cheilosis, glossitis, dermatitis, peripheral neuropathy

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Vit B6

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Deficiency causes: Megaloblastic pernicious anemia and degernation of posterolateral spinal cord tracts

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Vit B12

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Deficiency causes: Scurvy

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Vit C

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Deficiency causes: Megaloblastic anemia, neural tube defects

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Folate

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Deficiency causes: Nothing

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Pantothenic acid and Biotin

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Another name for: Vit B1

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Thiamine

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Another name for: Vit B2

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Riboflavin

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Another name for: Vit B3

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Niacin

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Another name for: Vit B6

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Pyridoxine

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Another name for: Vit B12

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Vit B12

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Another name for: Thiamine

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Vit B1

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Another name for: Riboflavin

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Vit B2

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Another name for: Niacin

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Vit B3

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Another name for: Pyridoxine

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Vit B6

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Another name for: Vit B12

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Vit B12!