Übersetzung für 'vitamin A deficiency' von Englisch nach Deutsch

vitamin A deficiency

Vitamin-A-Defizit {n}biochem.

vitamin A deficiency <VAD>

Vitamin-A-Mangel {m} <VAM>med.

• "Pionus" parrots are susceptible to obesity, vitamin A deficiency, and aspergillosis in captivity. These conditions, with the exception of aspergillosis, are easily prevented.
• especially for emergency situations such as vitamin A deficiency in malnutrition of children, and for women taking folate supplements to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
• This nutritionally improved rice is designed to combat the world's leading cause of blindness—vitamin A deficiency.
• Color blindness may also present itself as a symptom of degenerative diseases of the eye, such as cataract and age-related macular degeneration, and as part of the retinal damage caused by diabetes. Vitamin A deficiency may also cause color blindness.
• ] vitamin A deficiency, which is related to heart disease and night blindness.

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• Certain drugs or exogenous chemical compounds are known to affect inflammation. Vitamin A deficiency, for example, causes an increase in inflammatory responses, and anti-inflammatory drugs work specifically by inhibiting the enzymes that produce inflammatory eicosanoids.
• Heavy infestations may have bloody diarrhea. Long-standing blood loss may lead to iron-deficiency anemia. Vitamin A deficiency may also result due to infection.
• As a supplement it is used to treat and prevent vitamin A deficiency, especially that which results in xerophthalmia.
• Unlike retinol, β-carotene is taken up by enterocytes by the membrane transporter protein scavenger receptor B1 (SCARB1), which is upregulated in times of vitamin A deficiency.
• It is uncertain whether vitamin A or beta-carotene supplementation have any effect on eye and skin problems caused by vitamin A deficiency.

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• The developing lung is particularly vulnerable to changes in the levels of vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency has been linked to changes in the epithelial lining of the lung and in the lung parenchyma.