Vitamins
Subtitle: their role in the human body
By: G.F.M. Ball.
Publisher: Blackwell Science; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Vitamins -- Physiological effect; Vitamins in human nutrition; Vitamins -- physiology
Description: A single-source reference and textbook that assimilates the latest knowledge about vitamins' biological properties with regard to human nutrition. Introductory chapters cover historical and nutritional aspects of vitamins, detailed aspects of physiology and functional anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, the regulation of protein synthesis by nuclear hormone receptors, and much more. The subsequent thirteen chapters scrutinize each specific vitamin in turn. A glossary, bibliography, and index round out this expert resource intended especially for nutritionists, biochemists, physiologists, physicians, food scientists, food technologists, and other health professionals whether in the fields of research, teaching, or study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.