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
A collective name for a group of closely related lipids that contain substitutions on the 2H-1-benzopyran-6-ol nucleus and a long hydrocarbon chain of isoprenoid units. They are antioxidants by virtue of the phenolic hydrogen. Tocopherols react with the most reactive form of oxygen and protect unsaturated fatty acids from oxidation