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Pellagra is a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan. It involves disorders of the skin, nervous system and gastrointestinal tract.
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A main cause of pellagra can be a deficiency in a specific vitamin. Decreased levels of Vitamin B3 or niacin in the body can cause this disease. However, there can also be secondary causes of pellagra that include certain diseases. For more...
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Prevention of pellagra is completely possible; what is required is either a diet adequate in niacin-rich foods, or appropriate supplementation. However, in many geographic locations in the world such foods are unavailable to the general pop...
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with B vitamin supplementation or changes in diet. It is a deficiency of vitamin b3 otherwise known as niacin. you can get it from eating a very unvaried diet (just corn) or from starving.
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Pellegra is associated with a deficiency of the B vitamin -- niacin . To cure it, one would add niacin to their diet. The body can also make niacin from the amino acid (a protein building block), tryptophan. Pellegra is rare unless there is...
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"Epidemiology Pellagra can be common in people who obtain most of their food energy from maize (often called "corn"), notably rural South America where maize is a staple food. Maize is a poor source of tryptophan as well as n...
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How about rickets...and, scurvy has a nice ring to it.
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The answer is: D. Explanation: The amino acid tryptophan is converted to the niacin derivatives nicotinic acid and nicotinamide, coenzymes required for numerous oxidative and reductive enzymes. Niacin deficiency causes pellagra, which is ...
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･ 1. Isolated cases of a dermatitis resembling histologically that of human pellagra have occurred in rats ... ･ 2. Other rats on basal diets containing similarly prepared nutrients but deprived of any known source ... ･ 3. It is suggested ...
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