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ANS 3440 Types of Fat Soluble Vitamins
Types of fat soluble vitamins in livestock
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 3
04/01/2014

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What vitamin deficiency was one of the first nutritionally related diseases to be discovered?
Definition
Vitamin A
Term
Egyptians recognized vitamin A deficiency as what that used raw liver squeezing juices on the eye?
Definition
Night Blindness
Term
Plants contain carotenoids which can be destroyed by what?
Definition
Oxygen and Sunlight
Term
Plants contain carotenoids to harvest photons of light and what?
Definition
Transfer energy
Term
What prevents photodynamic damage from oxygen molecules?
Definition
Carotenoids
Term
What is the most potent carotenoid that is converted in the liver and intestinal cells to vitamin A?
Definition
Beta Carotene
Term
What are come sources of carotenoids?
Definition
Darkgreen Oragen colored fruits and vegetables
Term
If roughages are green.....
Definition
Sight is keen
Term
Animals do not synthesize what vitamin thus it has to present in the diet?
Definition
Vitamin A
Term
Most animal diets are supplemented with what vitamin A?
Definition
Synthetic
Term
What form of vitamin A is known as the alcohol form?
Definition
Retinol
Term
What form of vitamin A is known as the Aldehyde form?
Definition
Retinal
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What form of vitamin A is known as the acid form?
Definition
Retinoic acid
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What form of vitamin A is known as the supplement form?
Definition
Retinyl Esters
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What are the 4 function of vitamin A?
Definition
Vision, Cell growth and differentiation, Immunity, and Antioxidants
Term
Within the retina of the eye there are what 2 cells?
Definition
Rod cells and Cone cells
Term
What retina cell is not color sensitive but light sensitive and contain millions of molecules of rhodopsin?
Definition
Rod cells
Term
What retina cell is color sensitive and require lots of light?
Definition
Cone cells
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What is a pigment in the rod cells that absorbs photons of light?
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Rhodopsin
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Rhodopsin is made from what protein and vitamin in the form retinal?
Definition
Opsin protein and Vitamin A
Term
What vitamin A function is primary function of retinoic acid?
Definition
Cell growth and differentiation
Term
What regulates gene expression and thus the production, structure and function of epithelial cells in the lungs, trachea, skin and GIT?
Definition
Retinoic acid
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Retinoic acid is essential for the formation and maintenance of what?
Definition
Mucus forming cells
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What vitamin A function assists with cell mediated and antibody mediated responses, growth and differentiation of beta lymphocytes, and maintenance of epithelial tissues and mucus production?
Definition
Immunity
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What carotenoid action and vitamin A function is not yet proven in humans, decreases chance of cataracts and macular degeneration, certain cancers, and cardiovascular diseases?
Definition
Antioxidants
Term
Xerophthalmia, follicular hyperkeratosis, and dermatitis are all are from what?
Definition
Vitamin A deficiency and Insufficient mucus production
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Vitamin A deficiency can have poor growth and differentiation of what tissues?
Definition
Epithelial, Nervous tissue, and Bone
Term
What is a possible vitamin A toxicity that can cause headaches, blurred vision, incoordination, dry skin, hair loss, birth defects, and abortion?
Definition
Hypervitaminosis A
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Vitamin A is water soluble or fat soluble?
Definition
Fat soluble
Term
What vitamin is the most potent steroid vitamin known?
Definition
Vitamin D
Term
Vitamin D is necessary for normal calcium and phosphorus metabolism as well as what?
Definition
Bone formation
Term
In vitamin D has what 2 forms from provitamins?
Definition
Plant form and Animal form
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What vitamin D provitamin form has ergosterol which is referred to vitamin D2, not utilized by birds, well utilized by cattle, swine, sheep and humans?
Definition
Plant form
Term
What vitamin D provitamin form has 7 dehydrocholesterol, synthesis from cholesterol in the skin, SI cells and lover, referred to vitamin D3 and well utilized by all species?
Definition
Animal from
Term
Vitamin D affects 3 different tissues in an attempt to maintain blood calcium level.. why?
Definition
Muscle Contractions
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The provitamin forms must first be what before vitmain D can carry out its function?
Definition
Activated
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What organ regulates Vitamin D in provitamin animal form?
Definition
Kidneys
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The active form of vitamin D affect what 3 tissues?
Definition
Bone, SI, and Kidney
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What tissue that is affected by active form of vitamin D along with parathyroid hormone causes calcium mobilization causing bone mobilization?
Definition
Bone
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What tissue that is affected by active form of vitamin D acts like a hormone yo stimulate synthesis of calcium binding protein which increases gut absorption of calcium?
Definition
SI
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What tissue that is affected by active form of vitamin D increases gut absorption of calcium from tubules?
Definition
Kidney
Term
Bowing of the long bones in legs caused by bones growing but not mineralizing and beading along the ribs are symptoms of what?
Definition
Rickets (vitamin D deficiency)
Term
What vitamin D deficiency is a loss of bone mineral per unit of bone matrix , skeletal has not changed but mineral changed?
Definition
Osteomalacia
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What vitamin D deficiency is a loss of total bone mass with normal ratio of mineral to matrix (entire skeletal)?
Definition
Osteoporosis
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Vitamin D works in concert with what to prevent bone loss?
Definition
Estrogen
Term
What are 2 example of possible vitamin D deficiency in livestock industry?
Definition
Milk fever in dairy cows and Decrease in egg production (soft shell)
Term
All the vitamin D deficiencies can be caused of what other 2 things?
Definition
Low Calcium or Phosphorous
Term
When producing bone what is needed first?
Definition
Collagen
Term
What is the best source of vitamin D?
Definition
Sunlight
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What are the 4 sources of vitamin D for indoor animals where sunlight is unavailable?
Definition
Fish liver oils, Liver, Suncured hays, and Irradiated Yeast
Term
Vitamin D toxicity is what in humans and other animals?
Definition
Unlikely
Term
What animal are much more vulnerable to changes in blood calcium than other species?
Definition
Rats and Mice (calcifies vascular system)
Term
Who discovered vitamin E?
Definition
Evans and Bishop
Term
What vitamin was found that rancid lard fed to rats interrupted reproduction?
Definition
Vitamin E
Term
Vitamin E was first isolated from wheat germ oil and the compound isolated was what?
Definition
Tocopherol
Term
Several tocopherols exist in nature bu the most potent is what?
Definition
D Alpha Tocopherol
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D Alpha tocopherol comprises what percent of the tocopherols found in animal tissues?
Definition
90%
Term
Tocopherol found in plants because plants synthesis highly unsaturated fatty acids and the tocopherol act as a what?
Definition
Antioxidants
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Vitamin E works in concert with what to protect call membranes?
Definition
Glutathione Preoxidase
Term
Vitamin E works within the lipid bilayer of the cell and accepts oxygen radicals preventing the formation of what?
Definition
Preoxide radicals
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Glutathione Peroxidase works in the cytoplasm with what as a Co factor to destroy peroxides that form?
Definition
Selenium
Term
The cell has 2 lines of defense to prevent peroxidation of what 2 things?
Definition
Intracellular organelles and Membranes
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What vitamin E deficiency has edemas due to leaky cells (cell breakdown)?
Definition
Exudative Diathesis
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What vitamin E deficiency has hemorrhages and edema in the brain, referred as Crazy chick disease, because of chicken rapid growth?
Definition
Encephalomalacia
Term
What vitamin E deficiency is neuromuscular disorder and can be hereditary or nutritional?
Definition
Muscular Dystrophy
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Deficiency sign of vitamin E can lead to what?
Definition
Reproductive failure, Muscle degeneration, Membrane damage, Kidney degeneration, and Necrosis of the liver
Term
Vitamin E can do what for meat products?
Definition
Increase shelf life (keeps color)
Term
What vitamin was found to be a fat soluble substance present in green leaves and certain vegetables?
Definition
Vitamin K
Term
Who discovered vitamin K?
Definition
Henrick Dam
Term
A deficiency of vitamin K caused an increase in what?
Definition
Blood clotting time
Term
Vitamin K was named after what danish word for blood clotting?
Definition
Koagulation
Term
What compound that has vitamin K activity is found in plants and is the most common?
Definition
Phylloquinones (K1)
Term
What compound that has vitamin K activity is found in fish oils and meat and synthesized by intestinal bacteria?
Definition
Menaquinones (K2)
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What compound that has vitamin K activity is synthetic form and known as vitamin supplements?
Definition
Menadione (K3)
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What is vitamin K primary function?
Definition
Blood Cloting
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What are vitamin K 2 secondary functions?
Definition
Calcium binding and Synthesis of Bone
Term
What is the blood cloting process of external damage to tissue?
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Extrinsic
Term
What is the blood cloting process for inside the body?
Definition
Intrinsic
Term
Both blood cloting processes get to what?
Definition
Activator factor 10
Term
Vitamin K makes it possible for Prothrombin to turn into what?
Definition
Thrombin
Term
What deficiency increases blood cloting time and internal hemorrhages which new borns are at greatest risk?
Definition
Vitamin K deficiency
Term
Can vitamin K toxicity occur?
Definition
Rare
Term
Certain feedstuff contain Anticoagulants such as moldy sweetclover which contains what?
Definition
Dicoumarin
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What are some Anticoagulants used for medicinal purposes?
Definition
Heparin, EDTA (bind up all calcium), Citrate (bind up all calcium) and Coumarin (blood thinner)
Term
No calcium no what?
Definition
Blood clot
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