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Vitamin discoveries and disasters : history, science, and controversies / Frances Rachel Frankenburg.

By: Series: Praeger series on contemporary health and livingPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, c2009.Description: xiii, 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780313354755 (hard copy : alk. paper)
  • 0313354758 (hard copy : alk. paper)
  • 9780313354762 (ebook)
  • 0313354766 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.3/99 22
LOC classification:
  • QP771 .F73 2009
NLM classification:
  • QU 11.1
Contents:
Rats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A (retinol), the anti-night blindness vitamin -- Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1 (thiamine), the anti-beriberi vitamin -- Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3 (niacin), the anti-pellagra vitamin -- Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin), the two anti-anemia vitamins -- Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C (ascorbic acid), the anti-scurvy vitamin -- Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D (calcitriol), the anti-rickets vitamin -- Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins -- Conclusion : victories, but lingering concerns.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks QP771 .F73 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001270684

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-136) and index.

Rats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A (retinol), the anti-night blindness vitamin -- Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1 (thiamine), the anti-beriberi vitamin -- Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3 (niacin), the anti-pellagra vitamin -- Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin), the two anti-anemia vitamins -- Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C (ascorbic acid), the anti-scurvy vitamin -- Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D (calcitriol), the anti-rickets vitamin -- Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins -- Conclusion : victories, but lingering concerns.

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