Psoriasis and Fat-soluble Vitamins: A Review

Fat-soluble vitamins.

Requirements of fat-soluble vitamins for dairy cows: a review.

Knowledge about vitamins has evolved greatly since they were discovered < 100 yr ago, but the quantitative determination of the vitamin requirements of dairy cows has been difficult. Current requirements are based on data that are at least 20 yr old and, in some cases, > 50 years old. The response variables in those studies were the prevalence of overt signs of deficiency, level of milk product...

Biosynthesis of Food Constituents: Vitamins. 1. Fat-Soluble Vitamins – a Review

Velíšek J., Cejpek K. (2007): Biosynthesis of food constituents: Vitamins. 1. Fat-soluble vitamins – a review. Czech J. Food Sci., 25: 1–16. This review article gives a survey of the generally accepted biosynthetic pathways that lead to fat-soluble vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, the corresponding provitamins, and the closely related ubiquinones and plastoquinones) in anim...

Absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and sterols

The molecular structure of the four fat-soluble vitamins and of cholesterol, the major intestinal sterol in man, are shown in Figure 1. In spite of the obvious dissimilarities that exist between these compounds they possess one common feature, namely, they are all nonpolar lipids with extremely low solubilities in aqueous media. Because of this, it is convenient to consider them together when e...

The fat-soluble vitamins in poultry nutrition.

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