niacin
IPA: nˈaɪʌsʌn
noun
- (biochemistry) A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
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Examples of "niacin" in Sentences
- It isn't it's niacin deficiency.
- A deficiency of niacin causes pellagra.
- The first is simple dietary lack of niacin.
- Tryptophan is also used to synthesize niacin.
- Some stores are selling this labeled as niacin.
- A search for responders to niacin supplementation.
- It is a combination of xanthinol and niacin nicotinic acid .
- Treatment is with nicotinamide, a chemical related to niacin.
- Severe deficiency of niacin in the diet causes the disease pellagra.
- Niacin is converted to nicotinamide and then to NAD and NADP in vivo.
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