Quiz for Vitamins Flashcards
Which vitamin is important for cellular differentiation?
Vitamin A
Which vitamin is important for function of retina and the cornea?
Vitamin A
What is Vitamin A deficiency pathology?
Night blindness, Xerophalmia, Severe Vitamin A deficiency is visual symptoms and diarrhea, mild is poor function of the immune system
Over dose of Vitamin A
Nausea, vomiting, Liver damage, bone loss, hair loss, dry skin, Serous birth defect
Most toxic Vitamin overdose
Vitamin A
Which vitamin stimulates intestinal uptake of calcium and phosphate?
Vitamin D
What is active form of Vitamin D
Calcitriol in kidney
Where Vitamin D found?
Animal product
Vitamin D deficiency pathology
Rickets , osteo malacia, osteoporosis
What is second toxic vitamin?
D. Hypertension, kidney failure. Not from food or sunshine, but over prescription
What is the vitamin preventing oxidation of membrane phospholipids by free radicals?
E
which vitamin cooperates with vitamin C to combat oxidation
E
Where Vitamin E found
Vegetable oil
what is the least toxic vitamin
E
What is the vitamin key for synthesis of clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X?
K
What is the vitamin involved in regulating bone deposition
K
What is the vitamin Bacteria in the colon synthesize
K,
Vitamin K pathology
All infants receive K supplementation after birth, also after antibiotic for adults, or disease prevent absorb fat-soluble vitamins
Hemorrhage, bone malformation, hip fracture
Vitamin K overdose
rare, jaundice, (hemolysis and bilirubin from the liver)
What is Anti-oxidant vitamin?
C
What is vitamin synthesize collagen?
C (amin neurotransmitters)
Vitamin C deficiency pathology
Scurvy
Toxicity of Vitamin C
Kidney stone, incredibly non-toxic
What is the vitamin which is coenzymes, participating in energy metabolism
B1 (Thiamine)
Also Ribolavin, (B2), Niacin (B3), phantothenic acid, biotin
Thiamine (B1) deficinecy
Beriberi (peripheral neuropathy) in malnourished alcoholics
Niacin (B3) deficinecy
pellagra 4 D diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis, and eventually death
What is the vitamin crucial for cell division and nucleotide synthesis
B12 (Cobalamin and folate)
what is the vitamin participate in wide range of chemical reactions including conversion of amino acids to other amino acids
B6
What is B12 deficiency
peripheral motor and sensory neuropathy, anemia
