Water Soluble Vitamins Clinical Research and Future Application

Today, it is not the previously fatal deficiency-associated diseases that are in the focus of interest, but rather the relation of suboptimal vitamin bioavailability to chronic disease. This is complicated by genetic susceptibility, lifestyle, and the presence or absence of health-compromising habit...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stanger, Olaf (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:Subcellular Biochemistry
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 04509nmm a2200397 u 4500
001 EB000401143
003 EBX01000000000000000254196
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 130626 ||| eng
020 |a 9789400721999 
100 1 |a Stanger, Olaf  |e [editor] 
245 0 0 |a Water Soluble Vitamins  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Clinical Research and Future Application  |c edited by Olaf Stanger 
250 |a 1st ed. 2012 
260 |a Dordrecht  |b Springer Netherlands  |c 2012, 2012 
300 |a XVI, 384 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 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 
653 |a Cellular Stress 
653 |a Medicine / Research 
653 |a Stress (Physiology) 
653 |a Cytology 
653 |a Biology / Research 
653 |a Medical Biochemistry 
653 |a Human Physiology 
653 |a Human physiology 
653 |a Biomedical Research 
653 |a Clinical biochemistry 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Subcellular Biochemistry 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-94-007-2199-9 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2199-9?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 610.72 
520 |a Today, it is not the previously fatal deficiency-associated diseases that are in the focus of interest, but rather the relation of suboptimal vitamin bioavailability to chronic disease. This is complicated by genetic susceptibility, lifestyle, and the presence or absence of health-compromising habits, such as smoking. In turn, the development and application of new and more sensitive and specific assays further enable us to look more closely into the many functions of vitamins. Water soluble vitamins are complex molecular structures and even today, many areas in vitamin biochemistry are not yet fully understood. Novel effects and functions of vitamins remain and continue to be discovered. This book presents most recent research results and fascinating new knowledge on the role and effects of the water soluble vitamins in man.  
520 |a Some of the most distinguished chemists, biochemists, biologists and clinicians have contributed valuable chapters sharing unexpected novel insights into the biochemistry, (epi)genetics, metabolism, and function of water soluble vitamins, withtheir potential for clinical applications. Thus, physicians, clinicians, scientists, researchers, epidemiologists. nutritional specialists and health professionals alike will find stimulating and fascinating new insight in the many roles that water soluble vitamins play in human health and disease 
520 |a 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 elementary metabolic key functions in human metabolism. Vitamins are truly families of compounds, which include precursors and various free and bound forms, all with individual roles in metabolism and function. A more recent approach therefore searches for the components, the understanding of their roles in physiology and pathology as well as looking for novel pharmacological applications. When used properly, vitamins are, indeed, “magical” substances. Due to their efficacy, they should therefore be regarded as drugs with effects and side effects to be weighted against each other.