Vitamin E

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Vitamin E

• I am not responsible for errors!

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• Who showed that that rats maintained on certain
  diets did not produce offspring.
• Early Viagra

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• Evans and Bishop

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• What does Tocopherol mean

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• Tokas child
• Phero to bear
• Ol Alcohol

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• How many isomers are possible if there are three
  chiral centers on Vitamin E.

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• Eight isomers are possible
• Chiral centers are
• 2
• 4
• 8

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• What are the forms of Vitamin E sold?

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• Acetate
• Hemisuccinate

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• What am I?

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Vitamin E

• a-Tocopherol Hemisuccinate

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What am I?
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• a-tocopherol acetate

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• True or False
• Vitamin a-tocopherol is the predominant form of
  the vitamin in the US diet?

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• False
• a-tocopherol is the only form in vitamin
  supplements
• Think vitamin
• ?-Tocopherol is the predominant form in the US
  diet.
• Think SO? For natural form

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• What is the vehicle Vitamin E travels on in the
  periphery?

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• VLDL, LDL, and HDL. It is distributed in adipose
  tissue, liver and muscle.

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Who am I
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• Reduced Tocopherol

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• What is one of the few specific nutritional
  deficiencies seen in humans?

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• Hemolytic anemia

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• What is the RDA of vitamin E?

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• 15 mg/day

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• True or False
• ?-Tocopherol is the predominant form in the US
  diet?

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• True
• ?-Tocopherol is the predominant form in the US
  diet.

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• In summary, there seems to be a general
  antioxidant role and a specific function in the
  cells__________________.

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• In summary, there seems to be a general
  antioxidant role and a specific function in the
  cells oxidation-reduction systems.

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• To what extent do we need to know the different
  isomers of vitamin E?

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• Not a clue

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• Do we need to know the different rankings of d gt
  ? ß gt a?

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• So Viagra doesnt work for Dan and he really is
  missing his little buddy. He decides to take
  high levels of vitamin E roughly 300 mg per day.
  Nothing is working right now so he wants to
  increase his consumption to 1200 mg a day. What
  would be the result of taking such high levels of
  Vitamin E.

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• Pulmonary Embolism
• Hypertension
• Breast Development (Bitch Tits)
• Severe Fatigue

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• What is the potential therapeutic benefit of
  taking vitamin E (old people)

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• Possible slowing the progression of Alzheimer's
  disease.

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• What is the RDA for Vitamin E again?

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• 15 mg/day