Pellagra is a disease caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin (vitamin B3). Symptoms include inflamed skin, diarrhea, dementia, and sores in the mouth....
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Niacin (redirect from Anti-Pellagra Vitamin)
dietary supplement is used to treat pellagra, a disease caused by niacin deficiency. Signs and symptoms of pellagra include skin and mouth lesions, anemia...
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dietary supplement is used to treat pellagra, a disease caused by niacin deficiency. Signs and symptoms of pellagra include skin and mouth lesions, anemia...
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available for human absorption, thus helping to prevent niacin deficiency pellagra.: §5.2 Tryptophan is the metabolic precursor of endogenous niacin (Vitamin...
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Joseph Goldberger (section Pellagra studies)
four times for the Nobel Prize for his important work on the link between pellagra and poor diet. Goldberger was born in Girált, Sáros County, Kingdom of...
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Hartnup disease (redirect from Pellagra-like dermatosis)
Hartnup disease (also known as "pellagra-like dermatosis" and "Hartnup disorder") is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting the absorption...
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(or "vitamines") as critical in fighting significant diseases such as pellagra and rickets, and his analysis influenced a major shift in scientific thinking...
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supplement, it is used orally (swallowed by mouth) to prevent and treat pellagra (niacin deficiency). While nicotinic acid (niacin) may be used for this...
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erythematosus. More rarely, it is also seen in other diseases, such as pellagra, dermatomyositis, and Bloom syndrome. There are many conditions which can...
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B1). Funk proposed the hypothesis that other diseases, such as rickets, pellagra, coeliac disease, and scurvy could also be cured by vitamins. Max Nierenstein...
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deficiency in humans the condition was sometimes called "pellagra sine pellagra" (pellagra without pellagra). In 1935, Paul Gyorgy, in collaboration with chemist...
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niacin, the lack of which caused pellagra. Once alkali processing and dietary variety were understood and applied, pellagra disappeared in the developed world...
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(NR) as an NAD precursor in eukaryotes developed out of the study of pellagra. Pellagra was the first disease to be associated with NAD+ deficiency. It was...
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the full range of essential nutrients. The nutrient-deficiency disease pellagra is associated with a diet consisting primarily of maize, while the disease...
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redness and darkening of the skin around the neck, seen in people with pellagra. It becomes prominent following exposure to sun, and can be itchy with...
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condition attributed to excessive use of maize (corn) in the diet, such as pellagra. Maize is low in zinc, niacin, and tryptophan, and the limited niacin found...
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informants from the Southern United States, speculated that the prevalence of pellagra in the region during the Great Depression may have contributed to the rise...
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Louis Westenra Sambon (section Pellagra)
theories on the nature of diseases such as sleeping sickness, malaria, pellagra, and cancer. Sambon was born in Milan to an Italian father and an English...
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population are another possible cause of decline. Similarly, health issues like pellagra are known to arise through maize-intense diets like Cahokia's. However...
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water, and a diet heavily reliant on its consumption is a risk factor for pellagra. The ground product can be called masa nixtamalera. In Central American...
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HIV, influenza, or neurosyphilis. Certain vitamin deficiencies such as pellagra (niacin deficiency), vitamin B12 deficiency, folate deficiency, and Wernicke–Korsakoff...
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deficiency of the tryptophan amino acid transporter, which results in pellagra. Secretion is the reverse of reabsorption: molecules are transported from...
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Micronutrient deficiency The skin rash of pellagra, due to not enough niacin....
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traumatic injuries, central chromatolysis may be caused by vitamin deficiency (pellagra). Motor neuron Neuropathology - Basic Reactions. University of Vermont...
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Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents pellagra. Traditionally lime water was used in Taiwan and China to preserve persimmon...
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was a Spanish physician remembered for describing the Casal collar in pellagra. Casal was born in Girona Catalonia, Spain to Federico Casal y Dajón and...
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I; Dibari, Filippo; et al. (2007). "Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
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tryptophan, causes pellagra. Symptoms include aggression, dermatitis, insomnia, weakness, mental confusion, and diarrhea. In advanced cases, pellagra may lead to...
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contribute to fatigue. Less common symptoms include malabsorption (leading to pellagra), fatigue, muscle loss, and cognitive impairment. Late complications may...
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identified as one of the first major outbreaks of pellagra in the United States. The cause of pellagra was a mystery at the time, but one of the key observations...
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