Vitamin B1 in vertebrate muscle

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...

Vitamin-B1 Deficiency

Intestinal Flora and Vitamin B1

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 ...

Vertebrate development: A nervous vitamin

The vitamin A-related retinoids have recently been shown to be involved in the development of the central nervous system, both in specifying position along the head-to-tail axis and in the development of a specific subset of motor neurons.