CARDIOVASCULAR DISTURBANCES CAUSED BY DEFICIENCY OF VITAMIN B1

Vitamin-B1 Deficiency

Purpura Caused by Vitamin K Deficiency

Lxxx. Blood Pyruvate in Vitamin B1 Deficiency

IN the course of recent work on the role of vitamin B, in the metabolism of brain, it was discovered [Peters and Sinclair, 1933] that lactate solutions in which avitaminous pigeon's brain cells had respired for 2 hours gave a positive nitroprusside reaction for pyruvic acid [Simon and Piaux, 1924]. This led to a quantitative investigation of the formation of pyruvic acid during the respiration ...

Ginkgotoxin Induced Seizure Caused by Vitamin B6 Deficiency

Although ginkgo is commonly used as an alternative treatment for memory loss, Alzheimer's dementia and peripheral circulatory disturbances, it is also known to cause neuronal symptoms due to ginkgotoxin (4'-methoxypyridoxine or B6 antivitamin). We experienced a case of a 51-year-old female patient with generalized tonic clonic seizure and postictal confusion after eating large amounts of ginkgo...

Cholesterolemia and cardiovascular abnormalities in rats caused by copper deficiency.

The association of copper with cardiovascular disease and a possible involvement of copper in the metabolism of cholesterol prompted the study on hypercholesterolemia mediated by copper deficiency. Copper deficient rats were found to exhibit a highly significant cholesterolemia (P less than 0.001), and plasma cholesterol showed a significant correlation with hepatic copper concentration (P less...