Spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that leads to sudden loss of motor and autonomic function and sensory under the level of the injury. Studies showed that individuals with SCI has a clear tendency to vitamins level change. The aim of this study was to review the vitamins level in spinal cord injury. Vitamins C level decrease in the injured spinal cord patient. Vitamins C hav...

s Equine motor neuron disease (EMND) is associated with and likely caused by prolonged vitamin E deficiency. Horses without access to at least seasonal pasture and fed forages and concentrates with low concentrations of vitamin E are at risk of developing EMND. At risk horses should be orally supplemented with additional vitamin E.

The role of vitamin E and selenium as protective agents against oxidative stress was evaluated by measuring liver chemiluminescence in situ. Weanling rats fed a vitamin E- and selenium-deficient diet showed liver chemiluminescence that was increased 60 and 100% over control values at 16 and 18 days respectively after weaning. At day 21, the double deficiency led to hepatic necrosis, as observed...

BACKGROUND Although aflatoxin exposure has been associated with micronutrient deficiency in animals, there are few investigations on the effects of aflatoxin exposure on micronutrient metabolism in humans. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) albumin adducts (AF-ALB) in plasma and the aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) metabolite in urine and plasma concentrations of retinol (vi...

A recent investigation by Van Pilsum and Wahman (1) revealed low kidney transamidinase activities in vitamin Edeficient rabbits. One logical mechanism to explain this finding is suggested by the observation that dietary creatine depresses kidney transamidinase activity in rats (2, 3). I f the creatinuria of vitamin E deficiency depresses glycocyamine synthesis by kidney transamidinase while cre...

introduction: vitamin d has an important role in maintaining human health. the main source of vitamin d production is skin exposure to sunlight. accordingly with the spread of apartment life culture, growth of industrial cities and the increase of air pollution; vitamin d deficiency and its implications is an important factor in the appearance of debilitating diseases in different age categorie...

Vitamin D deficiency is one of the major health problems that is unexpectedly prevalent in Iran. The ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sunlight are the most important source of vitamin D in humans. In contrast, environmental factors are one of the reasons for decrease in UV transmission to the earth which results in the reduction of vitamin D absorption. Since the role of environmental factors has b...

Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency is an autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia caused by mutations in the α-tocopherol transfer protein coding gene localized on chromosome 8q, leading to lower levels of serum vitamin E. More than 91 patients diagnosed with ataxia with vitamin E deficiency have been reported worldwide. The majority of cases originated in the Mediterranean region, and the 744delA w...