Beriberi, Vitamin B1 and World Food Policy, 1925–1970

Beriberi, vitamin B1 and world food policy, 1925-1970.

Beriberi has long been recognized as being of special significance among the avitaminoses. It was not the first disease to be associated with a specific nutritional deficiency, but the researches of Christian Eijkman into polyneuritis in the early years of this century, and Casimir Funk's apparent isolation of an anti-beriberi factor in 1911, led to the discovery and identification of vitamins ...

Vitamin B1

Vitamin B1 is a watersoluble vitamin. It consists out of a pyrimidineand a thiazol ring, which are synthesized independently and linked afterwards.Vitamin B1 is de novo produced by many plants and microorganisms. Humans and animals have to take it up by nutrition. They are only able to do the phosphorylation reaction of the thiamin molecule. Thiamin is found free and as mono-, diand triphosphat...

Intestinal Flora and Vitamin B1

Vitamin-B1 Deficiency

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