Nicotinic acid riboflavin

Potatoes are an excellent source of carbohydrates and contain significant amounts ofphosphorus, potassium, calcium, and vitamins, especially vitamin C. Potato protein content, at over 10%, is relatively close to that of wheat flour (11%) also, thanks to their lysine, methionine, cystine and cysteine contents, potatoes are a valuable supplement to cereal proteins. For instance, potatoes provide a significant source of proteins (10-15% of total requirements), a major source of vitamin C, an important source of energy, and also minerals like iron and other vitamins such as thiamin, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, and pro-vitamin A (p carotene) (Salunkhe and Kadam, 1991). 

Lycopersicon esculentum L. Fan Qie (Tomato) (root, leaf) Protein, vitamin A, thiamine, nicotinic acid, riboflavin.50 Relieve toothache, insecticide, laxative. 

N.A. Carotene, thiamine, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, folic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, glutamic acid, serine, glycine, aminobutyric acid, globulin, amino acids.100 An antiseptic, aperient, depurative, digestive, pectoral, a folk remedy for asthma. 

Facilitated diffusion involves carrier-mediated transport down a concentration gradient. The existence of the carrier molecules means that diffusion down the concentration gradient is much greater than would be expected on the basis of the physicochemical properties of the drag. A much larger number of substances are believed to be transported by facilitated diffusion than active transport, including vitamins such as thiamine, nicotinic acid, riboflavin and vitamin B6, various sugars and amino acids. 

Penicillin, ascorbic acid, mannitol, monosodium glutamate, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, sorbitol, starch... 

Lactic acid bacteria have very limited biosynthetic capabilities and, reflecting this, are described as nutritionally fastidious. Early work by Du Plessis (1963) noted that all strains of wine lactic acid bacteria required nicotinic acid, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, and either thiamine or pyridoxine. 

TS Agostini, HT Godoy. Simultaneous determination of nicotinamide, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, thiamin, and pyridoxine in eiuiched Brazilian foods by HPLC. J High Resol Chromatogr 20 245-248, 1997. 

Species A, RE 6 12 C Thiamine Riboflavin Nicotinic acid Pantothenic acid Biotin Fohc acid... 

The water-soluble vitamins generally function as cofactors for metabolism enzymes such as those involved in the production of energy from carbohydrates and fats. Their members consist of vitamin C and vitamin B complex which include thiamine, riboflavin (vitamin B2), nicotinic acid, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, folic acid, cobalamin (vitamin B12), inositol, and biotin. A number of recent publications have demonstrated that vitamin carriers can transport various types of water-soluble vitamins, but the carrier-mediated systems seem negligible for the membrane transport of fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, D, E, and K. 

Recently, Prasad et al. cloned a mammalian Na+-dependent multivitamin transporter (SMVT) from rat placenta [305], This transporter is very highly expressed in intestine and transports pantothenate, biotin, and lipoate [305, 306]. Additionally, it has been suggested that there are other specific transport systems for more water-soluble vitamins. Takanaga et al. [307] demonstrated that nicotinic acid is absorbed by two independent active transport mechanisms from small intestine one is a proton cotransporter and the other an anion antiporter. These nicotinic acid related transporters are capable of taking up monocarboxylic acid-like drugs such as valproic acid, salicylic acid, and penicillins [5], Also, more water-soluble transporters were discovered as Huang and Swann [308] reported the possible occurrence of high-affinity riboflavin transporter(s) on the microvillous membrane. 

Group-transfer reactions often involve vitamins3, which humans need to have in then-diet, since we are incapable of realizing their synthesis. These include nicotinamide (derived from the vitamin nicotinic acid) and riboflavin (vitamin B2) derivatives, required for electron transfer reactions, biotin for the transfer of C02, pantothenate for acyl group transfer, thiamine (vitamin as thiamine pyrophosphate) for transfer of aldehyde groups and folic acid (as tetrahydrofolate) for exchange of one-carbon fragments. Lipoic acid (not a vitamin) is both an acyl and an electron carrier. In addition, vitamins such as pyridoxine (vitamin B6, as pyridoxal phosphate), vitamin B12 and vitamin C (ascorbic acid) participate as cofactors in an important number of metabolic reactions. 

The infrared technique has been described in numerous publications and recent reviews were published by Davies and Giangiacomo (2000), Ismail et al. (1997) and Wetzel (1998). Very few applications have been described for analysis of additives in food products. One interesting application is for controlling vitamin concentrations in vitamin premixes used for fortification of food products by attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) (Wojciechowski et al., 1998). Four vitamins were analysed - Bi (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B6 (vitamin B6 compounds) and Niacin (nicotinic acid) - in about 10 minutes. The partial least squares technique was used for calibration of the equipment. The precision of measurements was in the range 4-8%, similar to those obtained for the four vitamins by the reference HPLC method. 

Stock solution 4. 100 x stock solution of vitamins was prepared by dissolving biotin (20 mg), folic acid (20 mg), pyrodoxine hydrochloride (100 mg), riboflavin (50 mg), thiamine hydrochloride (50 mg), nicotinic acid (50 mg), pantothenic acid (50 mg), vitamin B12 (1 mg), 4-aminobenzoic acid (50 mg) and thioctic acid (50 mg) in deionized water. The volume was adjusted to 1.0 L. The solution was filtered, sterilized and stored as 10 mL aliquots at —20 °C. 

In the form in which they are consumed, many vitamins are not biologically active. For several water-soluble vitamins such as thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pyridoxine, activation includes phosphorylation or, as is the case with riboflavin and nicotinic acid, coupling to purine or pyridine nucleotides is required. In their major known actions, water-soluble vitamins participate as cofactors for specific enzymes, whereas at least two fat-soluble... 

Wehmeyer et al. (1969) published results on the content of B vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, and nicotinic acid), vitamin C, and p-carotene and foimd that the morama bean is a good source of both B vitamins and vitamin C, but a poor source of p-carotene. Holse et al. (2010) investigated the content of the eight vitamin E isomers and found that the vitamin E composition in morama beans is dominated by y-tocopherol with 59-234 ng/g, followed by a- and p-tocopherols with 14- 8 gg/g and 1.1-3.3 ng/g, respectively. Eurthermore, traces of 8-tocopherol as well as p- and y-tocotrienols were present in some samples. The remaining two tocotrienols (a- and 8-) were not present in the beans. The presence of a-, p-, and y-tocopherols in the morama bean was also foimd by Mitei et al. (2009) who examined morama oil and by Dubois et al. (1995) who examined two samples of T.fassoglense. 

Solanum nigrum L. Long Kui (Black nightshade) (whole plant) Solanigrines, saponin, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, vitaman C.33 Antibacterial, diuretic, treat mastitis, cervicitis, chronic bronchitis, dysentery. 

In general, vitamins appear to be at least as stable during UHT processing as during conventional pasteurization (Mehta 1980). Levels of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and E, as well as those of the water-soluble vitamins, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, and biotin in milk, are not decreased by UHT processing. Furthermore, no loss of... 

Other reactions of pyridine nucleotides. Alkaline hexacyanoferrate (III) oxidizes NAD+ and NADP+ to 2-,4-, and 6-pyridones. The 6-pyridone of N-methyl-nicotinamide is a well-known excretion product of nicotinic acid in mammals. Reoxidation of NADH and NADPH to NAD+ and NADP+ can be accomplished with hexacyanoferrate (III), quinones, and riboflavin... 

This reaction is a good example of the interrelationship of vitamin B coenzymes. Four vitamin coenzymes are necessary for this one reaction (1) thiamine (in TPP) for decarboxylation (2) nicotinic acid in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) (3) riboflavin in flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and (4) pantothenic acid in coenzyme A (CoA) for activation of die acetate fragment. 

Riboflavin, like nicotinic acid, forms an oxidation enzyme and, as such, acts as an oxygen carrier to the cell. The structure of riboflavin is ... 

VITAMIN B2 (Riboflavin). Some earlier designations for this substance included vitamin G, lactoflavin, hepatoflavin, ovoflavin, veidoflavin. The chemical name is 6,7-dimcthyl-9-d-l ribityl isolloxazine. Riboflavin is a complex pigment with a green fluorescence. Riboflavin deficiency frequently accompanies pellagra and the typical lesions of both nicotinic acid and riboflavin deficiency are found in that disease. See also Niacin. 

Several of the B vitamins function as coenzymes or as precursors of coenzymes some of these have been mentioned previously. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) which, in conjunction with the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, oxidizes ethanol to ethanal (Section 15-6C), also is the oxidant in the citric acid cycle (Section 20-10B). The precursor to NAD is the B vitamin, niacin or nicotinic acid (Section 23-2). Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is a precursor of flavin adenine nucleotide FAD, a coenzyme in redox processes rather like NAD (Section 15-6C). Another example of a coenzyme is pyri-doxal (vitamin B6), mentioned in connection with the deamination and decarboxylation of amino acids (Section 25-5C). Yet another is coenzyme A (CoASH), which is essential for metabolism and biosynthesis (Sections 18-8F, 20-10B, and 30-5A). 

Fenech, M., Baghurst, P., Luderer, W., Turner, J., Record, S., Ceppi, M., and Bonassi, S. (2005). Low intake of calcium, folate, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, retinol, beta-carotene and high intake of pantothenic acid, biotin and riboflavin are significantly associated with increased genome instability—Results from a dietary intake and micronucleus index survey in South Australia. Carcinogenesis 26, 991-999. 

The fat-soluble vitamins are A, D, E, and K. The water-soluble vitamins are thiamine (vitamin Bj), riboflavin, nicotinic acid (niacin) and nicotinamide, pyridoxine (vitamin B6), pantothenic acid, biotin, para-aminobenzoic acid, choline, inositol, and other lipotropic agents, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), the riboflavonoids, folate, and vitamin B12 (see Figure 66.1 and Figure 66.2, and Table 66.1). 

Carbohydrate metabolism provides the main energy source in coccidia. Diets deficient in thiamin, riboflavin, or nicotinic acid—all cofactors in carbohydrate metabolism—result in suppression of parasitic infestation of chickens by E tenella and E acervulina. A thiamin analog, amprolium—1-[(4-amino-2-propyl-5-pyrimidinyl)-methyl]-2-picolinium chloride—has long been used as an effective anticoccidial agent in chickens and cattle with relatively low host toxicity. The antiparasitic activity of amprolium is reversible by thiamin and is recognized to involve inhibition of thiamin transport in the parasite. Unfortunately, amprolium has a rather narrow spectrum of antiparasitic activity it has poor activity against toxoplasmosis, a closely related parasitic infection. 

The energy content of sunflower meal compares favorably with that of other oilseed meals and increases as the residual oil content increases and as the fiber content decreases. Sunflower meal also compares favorably with other oilseed meals as a source of calcium and phosphorus (36) and is an excellent source of water-soluble B-complex vitamins, namely nicotinic acid, thiamine, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, and biotin. 

Urinary excretions of nicotinic acid metabolites and 2-pyridone, as well as of 4-pyridoxic and xanthurenic acids were determined in 15 South African Bantu pellagrins before and after tryptophan administration (P13). Red blood cell riboflavine levels and serum glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase levels were also measured. The authors discussed the apparent inability of the pellagra patients to convert tryptophan to nicotinic acid as indicated by their low excretion of nicotinic acid metabolites before and after tryptophan load. The possibility that the subjects were also suffering from a riboflavine deficiency was also discussed. 

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