Nutrition High Yield

Question 1

B1=

Answer 1

Thiamine

Question 2

B2=

Answer 2

Riboflavin (FAD/ FMN)

Question 3

B3=

Answer 3

Niacin

Question 4

B5=

Answer 4

Pantothenic acid

Question 5

B6=

Answer 5

Pyridoxine

Question 6

B7=

Answer 6

biotin

Question 7

B9=

Answer 7

Folate

Question 8

B12=

Answer 8

cobalamine

Question 9

What are the 3 general symptoms of a b complex deficiency?

Answer 9

Dermatitis
Glossitis
Diarrhea

Question 10

What vitamin is necessary for normal differentiation of epithelial cells into specialized tissue?

Answer 10

Vit A

Question 11

What are 3 symptoms of vit A deficiency?

Answer 11

Night blindness
Dry/ scaly skin
Corneal degeneration

Question 12

What birth defect can vit A cause?

Answer 12

cleft palate, cardiac abnormalities

Question 13

What is vit B1 a cofactor for?

Answer 13

Dehydrogenase reactions!

1- Pyruvate dehydrogenase
2- alpha- ketogluterate dehydrogenase
3- Transketolase (HMP shunt)
4- Branched chain ketoacid dehydrogenase

Question 14

What can exacerbate a B1 deficiency?

Answer 14

glucose! because TCA enzymes can’t work

Question 15

What vitamin is a component of FAD and FMN?

Answer 15

B2 (riboflavin)

Question 16

What are the 2 symtpoms of B2 deficiency?

Answer 16

1- cheilosis

2- Corneal vascularization

Question 17

How many ATP is derived from B2?

Answer 17

2 ATP

Question 18

How many ATP are derived from B3?

Answer 18

3 ATP

Question 19

What are the symptoms of B3 deficiency?

Answer 19

1- glossitis

2- Pellagra (in Hartnup disease)–> diarrhea dementia and dermatitis

Question 20

What are the symptoms of B3 excess?

Answer 20

Flushing, hyperglycemia and hyper uricemia

Question 21

Which enzyme is an essential component of coA?

Answer 21

Vit B5 (pantothenic acid

Question 22

WHat are the symptoms of B5 deficnency?

Answer 22

dermatitis, enteriits, alopencia and adrenal insufficiency

Question 23

Wheat vitamin is used in transamination reactions, decarboxylation reactions, glycogen phosphoryalase?

Answer 23

B6 (pyridoxine)

Question 24

What are the symptoms associated with vit B6 deficiency?

Answer 24

convusions, irritability, peripheral neuropathy sideroblastic anemia

Question 25

What vitamin is needed for carboxylase reactions?

Answer 25

biotin!

Question 26

Eating too much of what can lead to biotin deficiency?

Answer 26

Egg whites

Question 27

What vitamin is needed for 1 carbon transfer/ methylation reactions?

Answer 27

Folate (B9)

Question 28

"macrocytic. megaloblastic anemia with hypersegmented PMNs and NO neuro symptoms"

Answer 28

Folate (B9) deficiency

Question 29

Which deficiency has increased homocystein but normal methylmalonic acid?

Answer 29

B9

Question 30

Which deficieny has increaed homocysteine and methylmalonic acid?

Answer 30

B12

Question 31

What is the cofactor for homocystein methyltarnsferase? And methylmalonyl-CoA mutase?

Answer 31

Vit B12

Question 32

"antioxidant that faciliates Fe absorption and is necessary for hydroxylation of proline and lysine in collagen"

Answer 32

vitamin C

Question 33

'corkscrew hairs"

Answer 33

vit C deficiency

Question 34

What enzyme supplemenation should breast fed infants recieve?

Answer 34

Vit D

Question 35

"antioxidant that protects RBCs and membranes from free radical damage"

Answer 35

vit E

Question 36

What are the symptoms of vit E deficiency??

Answer 36

Hemplytic anemia, acanthocytosis, posterior column and spinocerebellar tract demyelination

Question 37

"cofactor for the gamma carboxylation of glutamic acid resideus on proteins needed for blood clotting"

Answer 37

vit K

Question 38

What are the symptoms of zinc deficiency?

Answer 38

delayed wound healing decreased adult hair acrodermatitis predispose to alcoholic cirrhosis

Question 39

protein malnutrition?

Answer 39

kwashiorkor

Question 40

total calorie malnutrition?

Answer 40

marasmus

Question 41

What inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase?

Answer 41

fomepizole

Question 42

What inhibits acetaldehyde denydrogenase?

Answer 42

disulfram

Question 43

Ethanol metabolism has an increased ratio of what?

Answer 43

NAD/ NAD+

Question 44

What 2 pathways are increased in alcoholic liver?

Answer 44

Pyruvate--> lactate Oxaloacetate--> malate