The Sodium Vitamin C Transporters (SVCTs) regulate vitamin C homeostasis (system stability) such that excessive intakes result in reduced intestinal ...
May 29, 2023
May 29, 2023
The Sodium Vitamin C Transporters (SVCTs) regulate vitamin C homeostasis (system stability) such that excessive intakes result in reduced intestinal ...
May 22, 2023
Multi drug and toxin exclusion transporters (MATE1) and (MATE2) are major efflux transporters involved in the hepatic and renal excretion ...
May 15, 2023
Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (BCRP) seems to be an initial defence against environmental insults such as phototoxic skin lesions, and ...
May 8, 2023
The thiamine transporters Thiamine Transporter 1 (THTR1) and Thiamine Transporter 2 (THTR2) transfer thiamine and pyridoxine, and are associated with ...
May 1, 2023
Sodium Multivitamin Transporter (SMVT) facilitates the uptake of biotin, pantothenic acid, lipoic acid, and iodine from the gut and across ...
April 10, 2023
The organic cation transporters regulate the transfer of many essential organic cations across biological membranes and therefore have an essential ...
April 3, 2023
Membrane transporters enable substances to cross impermeable cell membranes. Whilst they primarily transfer endogenous substances such as nutrients, they can ...
March 27, 2023
Metformin’s role in healthcare management is expanding and is now being considered as a treatment for some cancers, bone health, ...
March 13, 2023
The mechanisms by which metformin exerts its effects are not fully understood and current concepts are currently being challenged. However, ...
March 6, 2023
Aspects of pyridoxine and pharmaconutrition have been written about in previous posts –Metformin & B6,Elevated pyridoxine and pharmaconutrition,B6 absorption requires ...
February 27, 2023
Metformin is a commonly prescribed first line intervention in NIDDM management and its mechanisms of action include decreased intestinal sugar ...
February 20, 2023
Metformin was developed and released in the late 1950’s and within a decade was identified as a cause of B12 ...
February 14, 2023
In many countries, metformin is the first prescribed therapeutic intervention for those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Metformin primarily increases ...
February 6, 2023
A throw-away comment in a relatively recent paper that metformin was associated with diminishing riboflavin status prompted this post.Although metformin ...
January 30, 2023
Membrane transporters are steadily gaining recognition as important factors in the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of many nutrients, as ...
January 23, 2023
Metformin is the fourth most commonly prescribed medicine in the world therefore it’s negative impacts on nutritional factors affects a ...
December 15, 2022
Coagulation (blood clotting) is a process that prevents excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured. Usually, a blood clot ...
December 5, 2022
DOACs (direct oral anticoagulants) are becoming the preferred option for coagulation management because they do not require the management strategies ...
November 28, 2022
The warfarin-vitamin K interaction is well-known and so those prescribed warfarin are typically “educated” about vitamin K containing foodstuffs, however ...
November 21, 2022
Warfarin is an anticoagulant for which there is a well-known coagulation interaction with vitamin K however its interactions with other ...