Vitamin B6

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 307-320

  Da Silva, Vanessa R ^a   Russell, Katelyn A ^b   Gregory, Jesse F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic, vitamin B6 nutrition status and aberrant one carbon metabolism; Genetic and nutritional factors in health and disease susceptibility; Marginal vitamin B6 status, concerns in human nutrition, of populations; PLP metabolism and vitamin B6 deficiency, adverse effects; PLP dependent and one carbon metabolism, in folate, methionine cycle; PLP dependent, direct indirect in metabolic phases; Vitamin B6 disposition and metabolic function; Vitamin B6 metabolism and role as a coenzyme; Vitamin B6, a family of related compounds of PN, PL, and PM; Vitamin B6, in foods of plant and animal origin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886971516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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