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Refer to chemically unrelated organic compounds occuring in small quantities in different natural foods

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Vitamins

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Where the 11-cis form of vitamin A is attached in order for the rods cells in the eye respond to light and transmit response to the optic nerve.

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Scotopsin

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Which terms refers to provitamins of Vit A present in plants

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Carotenoids

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This is the most light sensitive pigment present in rod and is formed by covalent association between 11 cis retinal and opsin.

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Rhodopsin

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What is the collective term for all ocular manifestations of VitaminA deficiency?

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Xerophthalmia

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Which of the retinoids is required for vision?

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Retinal derived from retinol oxidation is required for vision

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What is the earliest sign for vitamin A deficiency?

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Loss of sensitivity to green light

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What vitamin is deficient in patients with phrynoderma (toad skin) ?

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Vitamin A

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This is the most famous presentation of Vitamin A toxicity

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Pseudotumor cerebri

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Deficiency in this vitamin results in Wernicke encephalopathy?

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Vit B1 Thiamine - Beriberi

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Identify the triad seen in Wernicke encephalopathy?

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  1. Confusion
  2. Ophthalmoplegia
  3. Ataxia
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Wernicke -Korsakoff Syndrome damages which part of the brain?

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Mamillary bodies and Thalamus

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Vitamin that plays a major role in the transfer of reducing equivalents.

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Vit B2 Riboflavin

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What is the active form of Vitamin B2?

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FAD & FMN

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Which vitamin is derived from Tryptophan?

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Vit B3 Niacin

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What is the active form of Vit B3?

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NAD , NADPH

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What is the active form of Vit B5 (Pantothenic Acid)?

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Coenzyme A

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What is the active form of Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)?

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Pyridoxal Phosphate

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Casal necklace is associated with what vitamin deficiency?

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Vit B3 ( Niacin)
Nay asin imo liog

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What are the food source of B5 (Pantothenic)?

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Eggs
Liver
Yeast

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Gopalan’s burning feet syndrome is associated with which vitamin deficiency?

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Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic)

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What is the biologically active form of Vitamin B6?

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Pyridoxal 5- Phosphate

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Long term antibiotic use or excessive ingestion of raw white egg whites may lead to what vitamin deficiency?

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Vitamin B7 (Biotin)

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Vitamin H is also known as ?

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Vitamin B7 ( Biotin)

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Identify the vitamin that receives one carbon fragments from donors and transfers them to intermediates in the synthesis of amino acids , purines, and thymine.
Vitamin B9 ( Folic Acid)
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Advise for patient whois a strict vegetarian and is concerned about getting sufficient iron in his diet?
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) will help in iron absorption if taken.
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Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord is associated with which vitamin deficiency?
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
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Which vitamin requires cobalt for synthesis?
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
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Schilling test is used to detect which vitamin deficiency?
Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
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What form of Vitamin B12 is required as the coenzyme for a mutase enzyme?
Deoxyadenosylcobalamin is required to isomerize methylmalonyl CoA to succinyl CoA. Consequently methylmalonic acid levels rise with B12 deficiency.
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Vitamin deficiencies associated with microcytic anemia? (3)
1. Iron 2. Vitamin C 3. Vitamin B6
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Vitamin deficiencies associated with macrocytic anemia?
1. Vitamin B12 2. Vitamin B9
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Vitamin deficiencies associated with spinal cord degeneration? (2)
1. Vitamin B12 2. Vitamin E
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What vitamin is essential for collagen synthesis?
Vitamin C
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Dopamine B-hydroxylase needs which vitamin as a cofactor?
Vitamin C
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What is the most common GI toxicity seen in vitamin C megadosage?
Diarrhea
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What vitamin is known as anti-scorbutic factor?
Vitamin C
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Identify the form of Vitamin D obtained from fungal organisms (mushrooms, ergots).
Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol)
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In addition to the performed dietary precursors of active vitamin D, how else do humans obtain precursor?
Humans can synthesize the cholecalciferol precursor of active vitamin D from 7-dehydrocholesterol in skin exposed to sunlight.
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Where is the final step in the synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol occurs?
Kidney
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Disorders that occur most readily when vitamin D is deficient?
Rickets & Osteomalacia
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What is the standard method for determining vitamin D status of the patient?
Measurement of 25-OH cholecalciferol
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Less than 20ng/mL of vitamin D is associated with an increase which three cancers?
1. Colon 2. Breast 3. Prostate
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Alpha - tocopherol is another term for?
Vitamin E
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What fat soluble vitamin plays a role in cell membrane protection?
Vitamin E
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Patient diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis is at greatest risk for becoming deficient for this vitamin.
Vitamin E
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Which vitamin is the most powerful naturally occurring antioxidant?
Vitamin E
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Which vitamin is required for post-translational gamma carboxylation of glutamic acid?
Vitamin K
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Which vitamin is virtually absent in breastmilk?
Vitamin K
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Phytonadione , Menaquinone are forms of ?
Vitamin K
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Substances involved in the hydroxylation of proline , lysine in the immature collagen fiber. (4)
1. Vitamin C 2. Ferrous Iron 3. Oxygen 4. Alpha-ketoglutarate COFA
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What is the most potent antioxidant?
Alpha-tocopherol
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True or False. The risk for toxicity of fat soluble vitamins is high.
True. Fat soluble vitamins (ADEK) are prone to toxicity problems because they are “too clingy” to your adipose tissues. They are not readily excreted because of this property.
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Exclusive breast feeding is recommended until how many months of age?
6 months
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Macronutrients constitute about how many percent of the human body by weight?
0.96
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Minerals constitute about how many percent of human body by weight?
0.04
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Name the three ultra-trace minerals on our body?
1. Iodine 2. Molybdenum 3. Selenium SIM
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Which trace nutrient is required for the functioning of xanthine oxidase ?
Molybdenum
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Identify the H+ driven metal transporter with a principal role in iron transport and is responsible for iron uptake from the gut and transport from endosomes.
Divalent metal transporter 1
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What is the chief regulator of systemic iron homeostasis?
Hepcidin
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In women, the glycated hemoglobin A1c reflects the weighted average of blood glucose levels during the life cycle of red blood cells, which is around ____ days?
120 days
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Human body can store up to _____ grams of iron , majority of which is bound to apoferritin.
1 gram
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Copper serves as a cofactor in which of the following enzymes? (6)
1. Cytochrome C oxidase 2. Dopamine B-hydroxylase 3. Ferroxidases 4. Lysyl oxidase 5. Tyrosinase 6. Cytoplasmic superoxide dismutase 6 FeLTy Copper CD
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Identify the rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by abnormalities in zinc absorption. It presents with vesicular rashes with pustular crusting, scaling and erythema of the extremities, face, perineum.
Acrodermatitis Enterohepathica
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Manganese serves as a cofactor in which of the following enzymes ? (4)
1. Arginase-1 2. Glycosyltransferases 3. Pyruvate Carboxylase 4. Mitochondrial SOD PGM Arginine Manga Flavor
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Minerals important in RBC maturation.
1. Iron for Heme 2. Cobalt for Vit B12
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Condition in a patient presenting with fatigue and shortness of breath with hypochromic anemia with Hb 10.4g/dL , MCV 76/m3, MCHS 29g /dL , and decreased absolute reticulocyte count with low Fe2+ , Fe3+ and high TIBC.
Iron Deficiency
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What mineral is essential for the activity of glutathione peroxidase?
Selenium
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What mineral has a regulatory role in hormone action and may be involved in glucose and lipid metabolism?
Chromium
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Cause of anemia in a child of normal weight and height having excessive fatigue living in a 100 year old apartment building and ingesting paint chips; with microcytic hypochromic red cells.
Lead
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Result of a zinc restricted diet.
Enhancement in the activity of excitatory nerve fibers.
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Role of zinc in carbonic anhydrase
Catalyzes the reversible hydration and dehydration of carbon dioxide
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Arsenic inhibits what enzymes in metabolic pathways? (2)
1. Pyruvate decarboxylation pathway - Pyruvate dehydrogenase (Swanson conversion) 2. TCA Cycle - alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase

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