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Encyclopedia > Ergadenylic acid

Vitamin B8 is the nucleic acid adenylic acid, also known as ergadenylic acid. Its deficiency decreases RNA synthesis, as well as ADP and ATP synthesis. A deficiency will inhibit the breakdown of food into energy and deteriorate hormone functions. This substance was not widely recognized as a required vitamin. The term "vitamin B8" was later reused by some researchers to denote inositol. RDA: Not established


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Talk:Vitamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3090 words)
Is it Nicotinic Acid or Amide of Nicotinic Acid ?
The article Ergadenylic acid claims that that substance is essential and is a true vitamin.
Ergadenylic acid is called Vitamin B8 and is considered an essential vitamin.
Britain.tv Wikipedia - Vitamin (2459 words)
The reason the alphabet soup of vitamins seems to skip from E to the rarely-mentioned K is that most of the "letters"?title=were reclassified, as with fatty acids, discarded as false leads, or renamed because of their relationship to "vitamin B", which became a "complex"?title=of vitamins.
Fatty acids are a major component of fats which, like water, are needed by the body in large quantities and thus do not fit the definition of vitamins which are needed only in trace amounts.
Both pangamic acid and laetrile were first proposed as vitamins by Ernst T. Krebs; neither are recognized by the medical community as vitamins and their claimed anticancer activities have been disproven by many experiments.
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