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Folate supplementation: neural tube defects, homocysteine, and cancer

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Potential risks of folic acid supplementation and food enrichment

Biochemistry →

Biotin availability and exceptional causes of deficiency

Biochemistry →

Biotin in carboxylation and cell-cycle regulation

Biochemistry →

Pantothenic acid in coenzyme A and acyl carrier protein

Biochemistry →

Species dependence of the vitamin C requirement

Biochemistry →

Vitamin C in copper- and iron-containing hydroxylases

Biochemistry →

Scurvy: manifestations of vitamin C deficiency

Biochemistry →

Higher vitamin C intake: saturation and possible benefits

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Mineral requirements, deficiency risks and toxicity

Biochemistry →

Vitamins and minerals: metabolic functions and deficiency

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Protective functions of inflammation and acute–chronic progression

Cardinal signs, stages, and harmful consequences of inflammation

Inflammatory reactions: initiation, tissue injury, and impaired defense

Causes of inflammation and transition to tissue repair

Recognition of microbes and damaged cells in inflammation

Major components and early vascular changes of acute inflammation

Inflammatory fluid leakage, edema, and stasis

Lymphatic responses and initial leukocyte recruitment

Selectins in leukocyte rolling and fluid accumulation mechanisms

Exudates, transudates, and leukocyte recruitment

Leukocyte integrin ligands and the dynamics of rolling

Integrin-mediated firm adhesion of leukocytes

Leukocyte diapedesis, chemotaxis, and early inflammatory infiltrates

Evolution and exceptions in inflammatory leukocyte infiltrates

Phagocytosis and intracellular destruction of microbes

Functional differences between neutrophils and macrophages

Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in microbial killing

Phagolysosomal killing and leukocyte granule contents

Neutrophil extracellular traps and leukocyte-mediated tissue injury

Additional inflammatory cells and subsidence of acute inflammation

Sources, activation, and control of inflammatory mediators

Histamine and serotonin as vasoactive mediators

Arachidonic acid metabolism and prostaglandin production

Actions of thromboxane, prostacyclin, leukotrienes, and lipoxins

Major inflammatory mediators and pharmacologic inhibition of eicosanoids

Corticosteroids, leukotriene receptor antagonists, and cytokines

TNF and IL-1: production and leukocyte recruitment

Local and systemic actions of TNF and IL-1

Inflammatory cytokines: sources and principal actions

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