BGEN 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Aortic Dissection, Gluconeogenesis, Elastic Fiber

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Vitamin c: classic example of vitamin c deficiency: older person on tea and toast diet indicating that they are malnourished; pt gets bleeding of the gums = scurvy, due to vit c def. Vit c is responsible for hydroxylation of proline and lysine, and this occurs in the golgi apparatus b/c that"s where post-translational modification occurs. Pts have weak type i collagen b/c cannot crossbridge it; therefore, bv"s are unstable and gums bleed. Hemearthroses, and caused by vit c deficiency (b/c the bv"s are unstable and they rupture): physical diagnosis of vitamin c deficiency: along with the tea and toast diet, there is also perifollicular hemorrhage (hemorrhage around the hair follicles). See ring sideroblast (nucleated rbc, and has too much iron in the mitochondria), ring around the hair follicle and also see cork screw hairs due to vit c def. The tongue looks like it hurts and patients with vit.

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