What is Vitamin B1 | Vitamin B1 Overview | Benefits of Vitamin B1 | Foods That Contain Vitamin B1 | Vitamin B1 Deficiency | All Vitamins & Minerals articles
What is Vitamin B1 | Vitamin B1 Overview | Benefits of Vitamin B1 | Foods That Contain Vitamin B1 | Vitamin B1 Deficiency | All Vitamins & Minerals articles Vitamin B1, also called thiamin, is a water-soluble vitamin. The active form is a phosphorylate of thiamin called thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP). TPP functions in carbohydrate metabolism [...]
Vitamin B3 can help prevent attack in kidney disorder patients
Vitamin B :: Vitamin B3 can help prevent attack in kidney disorder patients A research on Kidney diseases at a hospital here has revealed that the intake of vitamin pill- Vitamin B3 or Niacin- would control phosphate and thus prevent heart attack in the chronic kidney disorder patients. Dr Krishnaswamy Sampathkumar, head of nephrology department [...]
Vegetarians, older folk advised to get enough B12
Vitamin B :: Vegetarians, older folk advised to get enough B12 Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common than doctors once thought, and experts advise that those most at risk — vegetarians and older adults — be sure to take supplemental forms of the vitamin. Vitamin B12 is essential for maintaining healthy nerve cells and red [...]
Folate in the Making
Vitamin B :: Folate in the Making We can only get folate, an important B vitamin, from food or supplements, but bacteria can make it themselves. Recently, researchers at Johns Hopkins University identified a long-sought enzyme that completes our scientific understanding of folate production in E. coli bacteria and offers a possible new target for [...]
Folate and B12 may influence cognition in seniors
Vitamin B :: Folate and B12 may influence cognition in seniors Folate may protect cognition in seniors, but only with adequate levels of vitamin B12. In an epidemiological study, low B-vitamin status was associated with anemia and cognitive impairment. Low vitamin B12 status was especially linked to these conditions if seniors also had high folate [...]
Dietary vitamin B6, B12 and folate, may decrease pancreatic cancer risk
Vitamin B :: Dietary vitamin B6, B12 and folate, may decrease pancreatic cancer risk Researchers exploring the notion that certain nutrients might protect against pancreatic cancer found that lean individuals who got most of these nutrients from food were protected against developing cancer. The study also suggests this protective effect does not hold true if [...]
MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle
Vitamin :: MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, MIT and Harvard researchers have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12-the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms. B12, the most chemically complex of all vitamins, is essential for human health. Four Nobel Prizes have [...]
Vitamin B12 and Multiple Sclerosis, MS
Multiple Sclerosis :: Vitamin B12 and Multiple Sclerosis, MS A Durham GP is calling for people to be routinely screened for B12 deficiency as he believes that this is the cause of symptoms that are often ascribed to other conditions. Dr Joseph Chandy’s surgery has so far diagnosed 750 patients, 10% of those on his [...]
Allos’ PDX and Gemcitabine in Patients With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma or Hodgkin’s Disease
Lymphoma :: Allos’ PDX and Gemcitabine in Patients With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma or Hodgkin’s Disease Allos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTH) announced the initiation of patient enrollment in a Phase I/IIa open-label, multi-center study of sequential PDX (pralatrexate) and gemcitabine with vitamin B12 and folic acid supplementation in patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) or [...]
