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Nutrients required by organisms in small amounts
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Vitamin D
Group of fat-soluble secosteroids
Vitamin A
Essential nutrient
Vitamin K
Fat-soluble vitamers
Vitamin E
Class of 8 chemically related vitamins
B vitamins
Group of vitamins
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Vitamin E intake, alpha-tocopherol status, and pancreatic cancer in a cohort of male smokers
scientific article published on 30 December 2008
HIV incidence among post-partum women in Zimbabwe: risk factors and the effect of vitamin A supplementation
article
DHCR7 mutations linked to higher vitamin D status allowed early human migration to northern latitudes
scientific article
Glycosylation status of vitamin D binding protein in cancer patients
scientific article published on October 2009
Normalization of plasma 25-hydroxy vitamin D is associated with reduced risk of surgery in Crohn's disease
scientific article published on August 2013
Effect of selenium and vitamin E on risk of prostate cancer and other cancers: the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)
scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2009)
Elucidation of roles for vitamin B12 in regulation of folate, ubiquinone, and methionine metabolism
scientific article published on 30 January 2017
Vitamin E deficiency enhances pulmonary inflammatory response and oxidative stress induced by single-walled carbon nanotubes in C57BL/6 mice
journal article published in 2007
The Relevance of Vitamin and Iron Deficiency in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Patients of the Swiss IBD Cohort
article
The normal liver harbors the vitamin D nuclear receptor in nonparenchymal and biliary epithelial cells
scientific journal article
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Vitamins are organic molecules (or a set of closely related molecules called vitamers) that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function. Essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism in sufficient quantities for survival, and therefore must be obtained through the diet. For example, vitamin C can be...

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Micronutrient
Nutrient
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