Vitamin K

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 230-247

  Ferland, Guylaine ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche   (Canada)

Author keywords

Current methods for assessing vitamin K in plasma, using HPLC; Tissue stores and MK 4, from phylloquinone, menadione as intermediate; Vitamin K; Vitamin K and sphingolipid metabolism in AD, to be defined; Vitamin K in Gla synthesis, a well defined function of the vitamin; Vitamin K nutriture in bone health, plasma phylloquinone, and bone health; Vitamin K, as a vitamin of wide ranging physiological implications; Vitamin K dependent carboxylation, carboxylase recognition signal propeptide; Vitamin K dependent proteins, and their functions; Vitamin K dependent proteins, in bone remodeling, and cell signaling

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EID: 84886956262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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