
The Vitamins
Chemistry, Physiology, Pathology
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1954
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: W. H. Sebrell, Robert S. Harris
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 9 7 0 0 - 5
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 8 6 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 2 0 3 - 5
The Vitamins: Chemistry, Physiology, Pathology, Volume II emphasizes the chemical, physiological, and pathological aspects of vitamins. This volume contains seven chapters. Each… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThe Vitamins: Chemistry, Physiology, Pathology, Volume II emphasizes the chemical, physiological, and pathological aspects of vitamins. This volume contains seven chapters. Each chapter discusses the vitamin's nomenclature, industrial preparation, biogenesis, occurrence in foods, effects of its deficiency, and metabolism. Other general topics covered in each chapter include the vitamin's specificity of action, toxicity, pharmacology, detoxification, requirements, and therapeutic activity. This volume evaluates vitamins such as choline, vitamin D and K groups, essential fatty acids, inositols, niacin, pantothenic acid. This book will be of value to nutritionists, dieticians, food scientists, technologists, and researchers.
Contributors to Volume II
Chapter 5. Choline
I. Nomenclature and Formula
II. Chemistry
III. Industrial Preparation
IV. Biochemical Systems
V. Specificity of Action
VI. Biogenesis
VII. Estimation
VIII. Standardization of Activity
IX. Occurrence
X. Effects of Deficiency
A. General Manifestations
B. Rat
C. Avian Species
D. Dog
E. Other Species
F. Man
XI. Pharmacology
XII. Requirements
A. Of Animals
B. Of Human Beings
Chapter 6. Vitamin D Group
I. Nomenclature and Formulas
II. Chemistry
III. Industrial Preparation
IV. Estimation
V. Standardization of Activity
VI. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Animals
B. In Pathology of Human Beings
VII. Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology
VIII. Requirements
A. Of Animals
B. Of Human Beings
Chapter 7. Essential Fatty Acids
I. Nomenclature and Formulas
II. Chemistry
III. Biochemical Systems
IV. Specificity of Action
V. Biogenesis and Metabolism
VI. Estimation
VII. Occurrence in Foods
VIII. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Animals and Insects
B. In Human Beings
IX. Pharmacology
X. Requirements
Chapter 8. Inositols
I. Nomenclature and Formula
A. Discussion of Terminology
II. Chemistry
III. Industrial Preparation
IV. Biochemical Systems
V. Specificity of Action
VI. Biogenesis
VII. Estimation of Inositol
A. By Isolation
B. By Chemical Methods
C. By Paper Chromatography
D. By Mouse Assay
E. By Microbiological Assay
VIII. Occurrence
IX. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Microorganisms
B. In Animals
C. Pathology in Human Beings
X. Pharmacology
XI. Requirements
A. Of Animals
B. Of Man
C. Influence of Other Constituents of Diet
D. Synthesis in the Body
Chapter 9. Vitamin K Group
I. Nomenclature and Formulas
II. Chemistry
III. Industrial Preparation
IV. Biochemical Systems
V. Estimation
VI. Occurrence in Nature
VII. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Animals
B. In Human Beings
VIII. Pharmacology
IX. Requirements
A. Of Animals
B. Of Human Beings
Chapter 10. Niacin
I. Nomenclature and Formulas
II. Chemistry
III. Industrial Preparation
IV. Biochemical Systems
V. Specificity of Action
VI. Biogenesis
VII. Estimation
A. Biological Assay
B. Chemical Methods
C. Microbiological Methods
VIII. Standardization of Activity
IX. Occurrence
X. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Microorganisms
B. In Man and Animals
XI. Pathology
XII. Pharmacology
XIII. Requirements and Factors Influencing Them
Chapter 11. Pantothenic Acid
I. Nomenclature
II. Chemistry
III. Biochemical System
IV. Specificity of Action
V. Biogenesis
VI. Estimation
A. Chemical and Physical Methods
B. Biological Methods
C. Microbiological Methods
VII. Standardization of Activity
VIII. Occurrence
IX. Effects of Deficiency
A. In Animals
B. In Man
C. In Microorganisms
X. Pharmacology
XI. Requirements and Factors Influencing Them
A. Of Animals
B. Of Man
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1954
- No. of pages (eBook): 780
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9781483197005
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483208602
- eBook ISBN: 9781483222035
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Robert S. Harris
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Associate Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.Read The Vitamins on ScienceDirect