Final Exam Material Flashcards
What are vitamins?
Organic compounds that are required for normal growth and the maintenance of life. They are effective in minute amounts.
What are the fat soluble vitamins?
Vitamin A,D,E, & K.
Fat soluble vitamins are incorporated into
mixed micelles, transported to enterocytes, and incorportated into chylomicrons, finally diffused out.
Provitamin A
Cartenoids, pigment yellow to red, antioxidants.
____ is the most common precursor of vitamin A.
b-carotene
Effiency of b-carotene conversion depends on species due to activities of
dioxygenase and reductase
b-carotene efficiency is highest in ___, intermediate in ____, and absent in ___.
Herbivores, omnivores, carnivores
b-carotene is cleaved to yield 2 molecules of vitamin A in
enterocytes
The functions of retinoids are
Visual prcess, epithelial cell growth, reproduction and immune system development, and carotenoids as antioxidants.
A deficiency of retinoids can cause:
Night blindness, repro failure, keratinization of epithelial cells, nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency disease and diarrhea.
Provitamin D in plants is ___ and animals is___.
Ergocaliferol; cholecalciferol
The function of Vitamin D is
Maintain proper Ca and P status of animals (Calcium balance)
A deficiency of vitamin D can cause
Rickets (impaired bone mineralization for young animals) or Osteomalacia (soft bones for adults).
Excess amounts of Vitamin D is toxic and can cause
kidney stones, calcification of heart and kidneys
Animals who have access to ___ have no need for dietary vitamin D,
sunlight a few minutes every day
This vitamin E has the highest biological activity.
a-tocopherol
Vitamin E functions as an
antioxidant to eliminate free radicals and maintain cell membrane structure, and Enhance vasodilation (blood flow).
A deficiency in vitamin E can cause
reproductive failure, cholestatic liver disease, cessation of bile excretion, fibrosis, nutritional muscle dystrophy.
All three forms of Vitamin K are
un-esterified
Microbial Vitamin K is
poorly absorbed, synthesized in colon and rumen by microorganisms.
The function of vitamin K is
blood clotting (K-oagulation), bone mineralization.
A deficiency of vitamin K can cause
prolonged clotting time, hemorrhage, bruising.
Phylloquinones are vitamin K synthesized by
plants
Menaquinones are vitamin K synthesized by
bacteria