High Yield Vitamins

Question 1

Vitamin A toxicity

Answer 1

Athralgias

Headaches

Skin changes

Tertogenic

Question 2

Three enzymes dependant upon vitamin B1

Answer 2

Thiamine needed by:

Pyruvate dehydrogenase

alpha-ketogluterate dyhydrogenase

Thansketolase

Question 3

Vatimin B2

Answer 3

Riboflavin

Question 4

Roboflavin is a requirement of these types of reactions

Answer 4

Oxidation-reduction (FAD/FADH2)

FAD–>Flavin

Question 5

Riboflavin deficiency

Answer 5

cheilosis

corneal vascularization

Question 6

Niacin derved from ______ so it is deficient in ________.

Answer 6

Tryptophan –> deficient uptake in hartnup disease

Question 7

Synthesis requires B6 and B2

Answer 7

Niacin

Question 8

Niacin deficiency results in

Answer 8

Dermatitis

Dimentia

Diarrhea

Death

Question 9

Forms essential component of CoA

Answer 9

Pentothenate

Question 10

Needed by liver enzymes (AST and ALT), decarboxylation reactions and glycogen phosphorylase

Answer 10

Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)

Question 11

How does vitamin B6 deficiency cause convulsions, hyperirritability, and peripheral neuropathy?

Answer 11

B6 needed for the synthesis of GABA–> deficiency in GABA

Question 12

Vitamin needed in carboxylation reactions

Answer 12

Vitamin B7 (Biotin)

Question 13

Dermatitis, alopecia and abdominal pain

Answer 13

Biotin deficiency

–>can be caused by excess egg whites which stongly bind biotin

Question 14

Vitamin B9

Answer 14

Folic acid

Question 15

Alpha-tocpherol deficiency

Answer 15

Vitamin E deficiency

Results in free radical damage to erythrocytes