PHAR 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Retinol Binding Protein, Outer Plexiform Layer, Vitamin K Deficiency
13 Dec 2017
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Pharm 300 lecture 18 vitamins, antioxidants, free radical scavengers. Vitamin deficiency: vitamin deficiencies are a common situation in north america; still occurring in canada. Food fads they don"t eat properly. Food fads are people who eat only one type of food. Alcoholics typically have unbalanced diet, also they often have problems in absorbing certain vitamins: vitamins are important for supporting functions in various organ systems and different vitamins have different roles in targeting specific body regions. Vitamin a is important in supporting eye function (vision). Vitamin k is important for blood clotting: each vitamin has a recommended daily allowance (rda) need to stay in this allowance, consequences of vitamin deficiency: Recall drug interaction of vitamin k with warfarin. Megaloblastic anemia, congenital malformation (vitamin b12, folic acid) We have talked about one dimension of vitamin a use of retinoic acids as a drug. Vitamin d is essential for bone protection.
