The last of the vitamins we will consider. The K vitamins form another family of fat soluble vitamins.
It is involved in blood coagulation and metabolic pathways in bones.
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
May 20, 2011
May 19, 2011
Vitamin E – another family
As with the ‘B’ and ‘D’ vitamins, vitamin E is a family eight of molecules. Four are classed as Tocopherols and four as Tocotrienols. Both sets of four molecules are named alpha (α), beta (β), gamma (γ) and delta (δ).
This molecule of RRR alpha-tocopherol was kindly reporduced according to the licence at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RRR_alpha-tocopherol.png
May 16, 2011
Meets the ‘B’s
Thursday’s posting was an introduction into the family of ‘B’ vitamins. Today we will consider the role of each B vitamin in the body and the associated deficiency diseases.
In general, the ‘B’ vitamins are needed for a whole variety of different roles in the body, from the immune system and nervous system to muscles and skin to metabolism.
May 10, 2011
Vitamins – An introduction
What are vitamins? We hear the word almost daily but are we actually clear as to what it means?
It is hard to exactly define a vitamin, but it is often referred to as a small molecule that is essential for an organisms to survive. The vitamin cannot be synthesized by the organism, or, cannot be synthesized in sufficiently large enough amounts.
