Thiamine deficiency and associated clinical disorders
By: David W. McCandless
Series: Contemporary clinical neuroscience; Contemporary clinical neuroscience
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781607613107; 9781607613114
Subjects: Vitamin B1 deficiency; Deficiency diseases; Complications; Nutritionally induced diseases; Thiamine Deficiency
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early chemistry; title: Early thiamine deficiency; title: Thiamine deficiency in mammals; title: Beriberi; title: Wernicke's disease; title: Central pontine myelinolysis, alcoholic cerebellar degeneration, and Marchiafava-Bignami disease; title: Leigh's disease; title: African seasonal ataxia; title: Inherited ataxias; title: Thiamine deficiency in serious illness; title: World health concerns; title: Future prospects; title: Bontius translation; title: Thiamine synonyms; title: Nobel Prize acceptance speech of Dr. Christian Eijkman, 1929.