Useful Links
General
metabolism links
You can find a virtual
textbook for this part of the course at the University of
Madison-Wisconsin.
Another good
site that covers most of the course is at the George Washington University.
Vitamins and cofactors
The Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy has an informative section on
vitamin deficiency, dependency and toxicity.
Find out about the vitamins from the guys who made the discoveries...
Vitamins A, C and D: Sir
Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge University)
Vitamin A: Paul Karrer (University of Zurich)
Vitamin B: Dorothy
Crowfoot Hodgkin (Oxford University), Christian
Eijkman (Utrecht University), Conrad
Elvehjem (University of Wisconsin)
Vitamin C: Norman
Haworth (Birmingham University - Go Norm!!)