Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Vitamins

George Frederick Mark Ball was born in Windsor, County of Berkshire, England on the fourth of May, 1942. He spent most of his working life in various commercial and research laboratories concerned with pharmaceutical analysis, clinical analysis, biochemical analysis, food analysis, and natural product chemistry (isolation of potential new antibiotics). He was also a technical writer preparing dossiers on potential new drugs for submission to the authorities for clinical trial and marketing permissions. He is the author of several books and book chapters on vitamins. He earned the B.Sc. honors degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Nottingham, School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, specializing in applied animal physiology.

Part I: Introduction. 1 Nutritional Aspects of Vitamins. Part II: Biological Perspectives. 2 Membrane Physiology. 3 Functional Anatomy of the Small and Large Intestine, Liver and Kidney. 4 General Physiology of Digestion and Absorption. 5 Glucose Transport. 6 Metabolism and Transport of Lipids. 7 Topics of Biochemistry. 8 Transduction of Intracellular Signals. 9 Type II Nuclear Receptor-Mediated Transcription. 10 A Guide to the Immune System. 11 Physiology of the Vascular System. 12 Structure of Bone and its Growth and Development. 13 The Blood—Brain, Blood—Cerebrospinal Fluid and Placental Barriers. 14 The Cell Cycle, Apoptosis and Cancer. Part III: The Fat-Soluble Vitamins. 15 Vitamin A: Retinoids and the Provitamin A Carotenoids. 16 Vitamin D. 17 Vitamin E. 18 Vitamin K. Part IV: The Water-Soluble Vitamins. 19 Thiamin (Vitamin B1) . 20 Flavins: Riboflavin, FMN and FAD (Vitamin B2). 21 Niacin: Nicotinic Acid and Nicotinamide. 22 Vitamin B6. 23 Pantothenic Acid. 24 Biotin. 25 Folate. 26 Vitamin B12. 27 Vitamin C.