Vitamin K. Any of a group of vitamins including vitamin K1(phytonadione) and vitamin K2(menaquinone) found in alfalfa, spinach, cabbage, putrefied fish meal, and hempseed, which promote blood clotting by increasing the synthesis of prothrombin by the liver; therefore, deficiency of vitamin K del...
two fundamental misunderstandings about these vitamins persisted for over sixty years: the medical and nutritional communities considered blood clotting to be their only role in the body, and considered vitamins K1 and K2 to simply be different forms of the same vitamin. The first vitamin K-dependen...
Within cardiovascular diseases,atherosclerosisis a pathophysiological process of multifactorial origin with long-term development. Two main components stand out in this process; dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and cholesterol) and inflammation. Fish oil has been shown to lower plasma cholesterol and TG...
(1991) Thromboxane and cysteinyl-leukotriene formation are differentially activated in spontaneously clotting whole human blood in vitro. Thromb. Res. 62, 249 -261.Simmet T, Weide I: Thromboxane and cysteinyl-leukotriene formation are differentially activated in spontaneously clotting whole human blood ...