Vitamins B and C are two water-soluble vitamins. Due to the various types of vitamin B, they can be found in a variety of sources. Vitamin B performed two main functions in the human body: one to make energy from the ingested food and to make red blood cells. It's important to ...
Vitamin A is important for maintaining healthy and good eyesight. It helps in fighting against infections and protects us from different types of eye disorders.
Vitamin C promotes the proliferation and effector functions of human γδ T cells γδT cellsVitamin Clymphocyte activationadoptive T-cell transferγδT cells are of interest as effector cells for cellular immunotherapy due to their HLA-non-restricted lysis of many different tumor cell types....
What types of vitamin D are there? Vitamin D3 supplementation (cholecalciferol) is recommended over D2 supplementation (ergocalciferol), because D3 tends to raise blood levels more effectively. Vitamin D is usually available in a wide range of doses and forms (e.g., tablets, capsules, soft...
Types of vitamin C The 3 common forms of vitamin C used in skincare products are L-ascorbic acid (LAA), magnesium ascorbyl phosphate (MAP), and ascorbyl-6-palmitate. The difference between the chemical formulations is their stability and bioavailability.¹⁸ ¹⁹ L-ascorbic acid (LAA)...
Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria Eun Seon Chung William C. Johnson Bree B. Aldridge Nature Reviews Microbiology (2022) Sulforaphane kills Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra and Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 through a reactive oxygen species dependent mechanism Yongjie Zhao Shengwen ...
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble steroid hormone essential for bone and muscle health. Yet, the discovery of vitamin D’s autocrine pathways in multiple cell types has stimulated interest in its role in brain function1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14. Specifically, the vitamin D receptor ...
Moreover, vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased risk for nearly all major human diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases. In addition to the treatment of bone disorders with 1,25(OH) 2 D 3 , these newly discovered functions open ...
Since there are many types of fractures that occur at specific ages and due to different circumstances, the influence of vitamin D on the frequency of a particular fracture may differ. Thus, the authors investigated the possible preventive effect of vitamin D on the risks of vertebral fractures,...
Hydroxylase enzymes are mainly expressed in the liver and kidney, as well as in other tissues and cell types, such as testes, blood cells, immune cells and adipose tissue [30]. Vitamin D is converted in the liver (25 hydroxylases) and kidneys (1α hydroxylases) into bioactive 1,25-...