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Vitamin A
- -stored in the liver
- -(retinol)vision & cell mitosis
- deficiency=night blindness
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Vitamin D
- (colecalciferol)
- -calcium metabolism
- -deficiency=rickets
- -toxicity=mineralized soft tissue
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Vitamin E
- (tocopherol)
- -soybeans & wheat germ
- -needs selenium to function
- -deficiency=Brown Bowel Syndrome
- -steatitis or pansteatitis
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Vitamin K
- -activates prothrombin
- -Sweet Clover Poisoning (coumarin)
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Vitamin C
- (ascorbic acid)
- -deficiency=scurvy
- -sores in the mouth, anemia, epiphyseal fractures
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Thiamin
- (vitamin B1)
- -prevents beriberi
- found in cereal brans, meat, legumes, green vegestables
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Riboflavin
- (vitamin B2)
- -dairy & organ meat
- -curled toe paralysis=chickens
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Niacin
- -plant & animal tissues
- -essential for carbohydrate metabolism
- -black tongue=dogs
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Pantothenic Acid
- -plant & animal tissue
- -pigs=dermatitis
- -fowl=dermatitis
- -dogs/cats=dermatitis
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Vitamin B6
- -metabolism of amino acids
- -pyridoxine!
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Folic Acid
- -reproduction
- -synthesis of amino acids
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Biotin
- (Vitamin H)
- -pigs=alopecia, dematitis, hoof cracking
- -dogs/cats=anorexia, dermal lesions, alopecia, diarrhea
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Choline
- -pigs/calves=incoordination, weakness,dyspena
- poultry="perosis" (chondrodystrophy) deformity of the leg bones
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