Vitamin B6 is used by the body as a catalyst in reactions that involve amino acids. Vitamin B6 deficiency is rare, since most foods eaten contain the vitamin. Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin B6...

In the 1930s, scientists began to search for a missing member of the B family--this one, a vitamin that could cure acrodynia, a skin disorder in rats that appeared to resemble the human disease, pellagra. Pellagra was already known to be a deficiency...

Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin. Pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) is the active form and is a cofactor in many reactions of amino acid metabolism, including transamination, deamination, and decarboxylation. PLP also is necessary for the enzymatic...

Introduction Vitamin B6 consists of three related pyrimidine vitamer derivates: pyridoxine, pyridoxal, and pyridoxamine, and their phosphate esters. The metabolically active coenzyme form of vitamin B6 is pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (P5P).[1] B6 vitamers are first oxidized to pyridoxal, and rapidly phosphorylated to P5P...

Continuing education and the APD program This quiz is an ideal activity for APD members to include in your CPD log, where it relates to personal learning goals. Record the time taken, to the nearest hour, to complete the quiz and any...

On my first visit to Yumcha, a new Chinese restaurant in the West Village, I sat at the counter. Five cooks were working at breakneck speed in the open kitchen-the scene was almost comic, like a movie on fast-forward. As I watched the cooks at...