A six carbon compound related to glucose. It is found naturally in citrus fruits and many vegetables. Ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient in human diets, and necessary to maintain connective tissue and bone. Its biologically active form, vitamin C, functions as a reducing agent and coenzyme in several metabolic pathways. Vitamin C is considered an antioxidant
A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into SCURVY in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)
Feeds -- Vitamin content. : Vitamin tolerance of animals / Subcommittee on Vitamin Tolerance, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council
A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN D in the diet, insufficient production of vitamin D in the skin, inadequate absorption of vitamin D from the diet, or abnormal conversion of vitamin D to its bioactive metabolites. It is manifested clinically as RICKETS in children and OSTEOMALACIA in adults. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1406)
Vitamin D -- Metabolism -- Congresses. : Vitamin D, chemical, biochemical, and clinical endocrinology of calcium metabolism : proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Vitamin D, Williamsburg, VA, USA, February 1982 / editors, A.W. Norman ... [and others]
Vitamin D -- Metabolism -- Disorders -- Congresses. : Vitamin D, chemical, biochemical, and clinical endocrinology of calcium metabolism : proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Vitamin D, Williamsburg, VA, USA, February 1982 / editors, A.W. Norman ... [and others]
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Vitamin D -- pharmacology : Vitamin D : physiology, molecular biology, and clinical applications / edited by Michael F. Holick