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Pages 85-86

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... High levels of pantothenic acid can cause liver damage characterized by hepatic steatitis and elevated serum transaminase activities. Vitamin E is generally tolerated at dietary intakes as great as 100-fold nutritional required levels of animals.
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... Parenteral administration of massive amounts of the vitamin has been found to produce epileptiform convulsion and renal hypertrophy in rats, however. Very little information is available concerning the pathologies of biotin and vitamin BE hypervitaminoses.
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Key Terms

  • nervous function
  • dietary levels
  • deficiency diseases
  • pantothenic acid
  • required levels

  • folic acid
  • prevent deficiency
  • respective nutritional
  • animals fed
  • gastrointestinal disturbances

  • massive amounts
  • tissue lesions
  • particular organ
  • specific tissue
  • lesions induced

  • renal hypertrophy
  • affect particular
  • excessive absorption
  • concerning animal
  • damage characterized

  • produce epileptiform
  • levels required
  • oral intake
  • epileptiform convulsions
  • impaired nervous

  • hypervitaminosis due
  • induced hypercalcemia
  • allergic reactions
  • hepatic steatitis
  • liver damage


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