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    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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    (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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    proteins is made more available for human absorption, thus helping to prevent pellagra.: §5.2  Some of the corn oil is broken down into emulsifying agents (monoglycerides...
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    Hartnup disease (also known as "pellagra-like dermatosis" and "Hartnup disorder") is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder affecting the absorption...
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    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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    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. A malar rash of lupus is red or purplish...
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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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Sparfloxacin in 2% of cases Amiodarone, used to treat atrial fibrillation Pellagra (Vitamin B3 deficiency) Photodermatitis can also be caused by plants such...
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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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    Micronutrient deficiency The skin rash of pellagra, due to not enough niacin....
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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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    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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    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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    traumatic injuries, central chromatolysis may be caused by vitamin deficiency (pellagra). Motor neuron Neuropathology - Basic Reactions. University of Vermont...
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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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    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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  • started), a program which substantially reduced the incidence of pellagra. Pellagra was seen amongst poor families who used corn as their main dietary...
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