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Vitamin E: Textbooks require updating
Author(s) -
Azzi Angelo,
Zingg JeanMarc
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.2005.494033032451
Subject(s) - vitamin , function (biology) , vitamin d and neurology , psychology , medicine , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , biology , endocrinology , evolutionary biology
Vitamin E was discovered in 1922, but in more than 60 years many new findings have added to the early one. However, its description in many textbooks has not been proportionally updated. The result is an inaccurate, incomplete, and often incorrect description of the function of this vitamin. In some other textbooks, vitamin E is absolutely neglected. In almost all books the existence of vitamin E deficiency diseases is ignored. Recent findings on vitamin E molecular functions and its related diseases are described in this article.