vitamin a deficiency/carbohydrate

Plasma glycoprotein synthesis in normal and vitamin A-deficient rats was investigated by injecting the rats with labeled carbohydrate precursors and then fractionating their plasmas on DEAE-Sephadex. Plasma from deficient rats showed a consistent depression of 30% in the uptake of label into a peak

The effect of ethanol (CAS: 64-17-5) consumption on the development of squamous metaplasia of the trachea caused by vitamin A deficiency was assessed in rats. To that effect, weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed for 8-12 weeks either a nutritionally adequate liquid diet containing a standard

The effect of short term dietary vitamin A deficiency in post-pubertal female rats in terms of weight gain, food consumption, organ weights, haemoglobin content, blood glucose and lactate levels and, tissue protein and glycogen contents has been evaluated to gain insight into the possible

The effect of ethanol consumption on the development of squamous metaplasia of the trachea caused by vitamin A deficiency was studied in rats fed for 8-14 weeks with either normal vitamin A-containing diets or diets lacking vitamin A. Littermates were pair-fed the same diets with carbohydrates (36%

Glycoproteins and proteins were extracted from segments or scrapings of the intestine in tube-fed, vitamin-A-deficient and control rats on the eight day after withdrawal of retinoic acid from the diet by using either 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or aqueous 5 mM EDTA (pH 7.4). They were then

A significant decrease in total carbohydrates and particularly in mannose, galactose and sialic acid has been observed in vitamin A-deficient rat liver lysosomal membrane. These alterations adversely affect the membrane permeability and structure-linked latency of the lysosomal enzymes. Significant

The effect of the dietary status of vitamin A on carbohydrate metabolism, postmortem isometric tension development, and shear resistance of Pectoralis major muscle was studied. Depletion studies conducted over a 5-week period indicated a definite influence of vitamin A deficiency on muscle

An increased risk of cancer of the esophagus has been reported in alcoholics and in populations with low dietary vitamin A consumption. As cancer is a disorder of cell proliferation and differentiation, we have assessed the combined effects of ethanol and vitamin A deficiency on cell proliferation

Assessments of dietary intake, intelligence, physical growth, and clinical signs of malnutrition were made on 600 children from five Philippine communities. Five boys and five girls each at ages 8,9, and 10 from poor and less poor families drawn from town and rural schools in each community were

Khalwa is a non-governmental boarding school specialized in teaching Quran to Sudanese children. Food supply to Khalwa is completely dependent on donations. Students are fed on low cost and low nutritional value diet made of sorghum flour porridge and a stew made of dry okra, onion and oil. The

The vitamine doctrine: Although diseases resulting from vitamin deficiencies have been known for millennia, such disorders were generally attributed to toxic or infectious causes until the "vitamin doctrine" was developed in the early 20th century. In the late-19th century, a physiologically

OBJECTIVE To describe prevalence of malnutrition and their correlates of nutrient and traditional food consumption in rural Dalit mothers. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, we used socio-cultural questionnaires, anthropometric measurements and clinical eye examinations during the rainy season in

Recent evidence supports the concept that vitamin A plays some role in glycoprotein synthesis in a large-variety of tissues examined. Its involvement may be through participation of a retinol-linked sugar, mannosyl retinyl phosphate (MRP). Upon injection of [3H]retinol and [14C]mannose into rats,

Vitamin A supplementation improves status, which may protect against malarial infection. Provitamin A carotenoid biofortified staple crops may provide a more sustainable approach to alleviate vitamin A deficiency than supplementation, but the impact of febrile illness on food intake must be

OBJECTIVE The present study was undertaken to determine vitamin A status in 59 free-living (26 males, 33 females) healthy older persons (65-74 years) in winter and summer. METHODS Three-day dietary intake data for vitamin A along with carbohydrate, lipid and protein were collected during the summer