• Thumbnail for Pellagra
    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....
    44 KB (5,136 words) - 17:52, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Niacin
    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...
    92 KB (8,787 words) - 19:47, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vitamin B3
    dietary supplement is used to treat pellagra, a disease caused by niacin deficiency. Signs and symptoms of pellagra include skin and mouth lesions, anemia...
    44 KB (3,927 words) - 06:34, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nixtamalization
    available for human absorption, thus helping to prevent niacin deficiency pellagra.: §5.2  Tryptophan is the metabolic precursor of endogenous niacin (Vitamin...
    19 KB (2,180 words) - 17:15, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Goldberger
    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...
    14 KB (1,565 words) - 00:42, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hartnup disease
    Hartnup disease (also known as "pellagra-like dermatosis" and "Hartnup disorder") is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting the absorption...
    9 KB (939 words) - 15:54, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Casimir Funk
    (or "vitamines") as critical in fighting significant diseases such as pellagra and rickets, and his analysis influenced a major shift in scientific thinking...
    14 KB (1,416 words) - 00:24, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicotinamide
    supplement, it is used orally (swallowed by mouth) to prevent and treat pellagra (niacin deficiency). While nicotinic acid (niacin) may be used for this...
    29 KB (2,443 words) - 19:24, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malar rash
    erythematosus. More rarely, it is also seen in other diseases, such as pellagra, dermatomyositis, and Bloom syndrome. There are many conditions which can...
    6 KB (663 words) - 18:39, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vitamin
    B1). Funk proposed the hypothesis that other diseases, such as rickets, pellagra, coeliac disease, and scurvy could also be cured by vitamins. Max Nierenstein...
    68 KB (6,397 words) - 21:53, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Riboflavin
    deficiency in humans the condition was sometimes called "pellagra sine pellagra" (pellagra without pellagra). In 1935, Paul Gyorgy, in collaboration with chemist...
    56 KB (5,564 words) - 16:09, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maize
    niacin, the lack of which caused pellagra. Once alkali processing and dietary variety were understood and applied, pellagra disappeared in the developed world...
    86 KB (9,037 words) - 10:04, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicotinamide riboside
    (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...
    21 KB (1,939 words) - 22:47, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Staple food
    the full range of essential nutrients. The nutrient-deficiency disease pellagra is associated with a diet consisting primarily of maize, while the disease...
    18 KB (1,738 words) - 22:09, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Casal collar
    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...
    3 KB (180 words) - 13:14, 30 July 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (196 words) - 14:07, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Redneck
    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...
    19 KB (2,105 words) - 18:01, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Westenra Sambon
    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...
    13 KB (1,529 words) - 11:13, 6 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cahokia
    population are another possible cause of decline. Similarly, health issues like pellagra are known to arise through maize-intense diets like Cahokia's. However...
    96 KB (10,236 words) - 04:42, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Masa
    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...
    4 KB (422 words) - 02:25, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bipolar disorder
    HIV, influenza, or neurosyphilis. Certain vitamin deficiencies such as pellagra (niacin deficiency), vitamin B12 deficiency, folate deficiency, and Wernicke–Korsakoff...
    158 KB (17,834 words) - 14:08, 21 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kidney
    deficiency of the tryptophan amino acid transporter, which results in pellagra. Secretion is the reverse of reabsorption: molecules are transported from...
    62 KB (6,996 words) - 06:26, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Micronutrient deficiency
    Micronutrient deficiency The skin rash of pellagra, due to not enough niacin....
    18 KB (1,879 words) - 16:05, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Central chromatolysis
    traumatic injuries, central chromatolysis may be caused by vitamin deficiency (pellagra). Motor neuron Neuropathology - Basic Reactions. University of Vermont...
    2 KB (160 words) - 20:53, 17 December 2020
  • Thumbnail for Calcium hydroxide
    Nixtamalization makes the niacin nutritionally available and prevents pellagra. Traditionally lime water was used in Taiwan and China to preserve persimmon...
    22 KB (2,126 words) - 19:31, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gaspar Casal
    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...
    4 KB (369 words) - 13:15, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angola
    I; Dibari, Filippo; et al. (2007). "Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
    168 KB (16,428 words) - 20:52, 22 December 2024
  • tryptophan, causes pellagra. Symptoms include aggression, dermatitis, insomnia, weakness, mental confusion, and diarrhea. In advanced cases, pellagra may lead to...
    43 KB (2,802 words) - 08:18, 15 November 2024
  • contribute to fatigue. Less common symptoms include malabsorption (leading to pellagra), fatigue, muscle loss, and cognitive impairment. Late complications may...
    17 KB (1,814 words) - 18:30, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Searcy Hospital
    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...
    6 KB (481 words) - 03:48, 4 June 2023