CVD is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the Western world. In recent years its importance has expanded internationally and it is believed that by 2020 it will be the biggest cause of mortality in the world, emphasising the importance to prevent or minimise this increase. A beneficial role for vitamins in CVD has long been explored but the data are still inconsistent. While being supp...

Vitamins are defined as essential micronutrients that are required in trace quantity and cannot be synthesized by mammals. Apart from their in vivo nutritional and physiological roles as growth factors for men, animals, plants and microorganisms, vitamins are now being increasingly introduced as food/feed additives, as medical-therapeutic agents, as health aids, and also as technical aids. Prod...

Algae are simple photosynthetic eukaryotes which—owing to their colonization of the oceans—are responsible for up to 50% of the planet’s atmospheric carbon fixation (22). They comprise a diverse group that can broadly be defined as unicellular (microalgae) or multicellular (macroalgae) photosynthetic organisms that lack roots, stems, leaves, conducting vessels, and complex sex organs (55). A si...

Copyright: © 2012 de Jager CA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Brain shrinkage occurs with ageing and has been shown to predict the decline of mental functions such as memory, executive functio...

In a classical sense, vitamin D3, the form produced in animals, is not a true “vitamin” because it is produced in the skin from 7-dehydrocholesterol by UV radiation in the range 290 to 300 nm; 7-dehydrocholesterol is produced from cholesterol metabolism. Only when exposure to sunlight is inadequate does vitamin D3 become a vitamin in the historical sense. Further, vitamin D3 is now termed a pro...

tHcy predicted vascular disease more strongly in women than in men, while the reverse was true for fasting tHcy. While post-methionine tHcy was higher in men than in women, in line with previous studies, the percentage change was greater in women, possibly reflecting an overdose of methionine with respect to lean tissue mass. Unlike previous studies, the current paper found only slight evidence...

introduction feed constitutes 70 to 75 percent of poultry flock costs which vitamins constitute 0.08 % of diet and 2 % of feed costs. vitamins as a group of complex organic compounds are needed in small amounts for normal metabolism of the body. researches have shown that vitamins with smaller particles as vitamin supplements, were more effective and showed higher bioavailability. nano form of ...

Social Implications of Vitamins: DR. ROBERT R. WILciation for the Advancement of Science: PROFESLIAMS .. .................. 471 SOR ARTHUR W. MELTON ........................................ 493 The Use and Misuse of Science in Government: DR. Special Articles: A. V. HILL ..... 475 Purification of the Virus of Mouse EncephalomyeliObituary: tis: DR. S. GARD and DR. K. 0. PEDERSEN. The CarWilliam ...