Vitamin K
Vitamin K @ EurekaMag.com
Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) May 20, 2014
EurekaMag.com has published 7,270 articles on the importance of Vitamin K which includes the two natural vitamin K1 and vitamin K2. The site's research category covers all of these articles showcasing how vitamin K allows proteins to bind calcium ions and thereby preventing or treating osteoporosis. More specifically, the Life, Earth & Health Sciences Research Section 28 demonstrates how vitamin K can prevent bone loss and/or fractures.
The Life, Earth & Health Sciences Research Chapter 27852 presents a subset of the current total of over 7,270 references and abstracts on vitamin K1 which naturally occurs primarily in leafy green vegetables where it is involved in photosynthesis. This plant-derived vitamin is active in humans in activating production of blood-clotting proteins. The chapter includes articles on Vitamin K and bone cell protein synthesis in cell culture, Vitamin K deficiency in the elderly, Vitamin K pharmaco kinetics response in young and elderly patients, Vitamin K stimulation of ceramide synthesis in bacteroides melaninogenicus, Vitamin K requirement of man, Vitamin K requirement in hereditary resistance to oral anti coagulants, Vitamin K dependent factors and liver cirrhosis, and on Vitamin K deficiency in apparently healthy children.
The most important and, consequently, most read articles on vitamin K at EurekaMag.com include references about the effect of food composition on vitamin K absorption in human volunteers, Physiological role of vitamin K in fish, reversal of Vitamin K Antagonist VKA effect in patients with severe bleeding, prevalence of vitamin K deficiency in cystic fibrosis, and on pharmacological studies of synthetic vitamin K.
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