TY - CHAP
AU - Brian M. Meehan
AU - Jonathan Beckwith
ED - Jan Oxholm Gordeladze
Y1 - 2017-03-22
PY - 2017
T1 - From Protein Folding to Blood Coagulation: Menaquinone as a Metabolic Link between Bacteria and Mammals
N2 - This book serves as a comprehensive survey of the impact of vitamin K2 on cellular functions and organ systems, indicating that vitamin K2 plays an important role in the differentiation/preservation of various cell phenotypes and as a stimulator and/or mediator of interorgan cross talk. Vitamin K2 binds to the transcription factor SXR/PXR, thus acting like a hormone (very much in the same manner as vitamin A and vitamin D). Therefore, vitamin K2 affects a multitude of organ systems, and it is reckoned to be one positive factor in bringing about "longevity" to the human body, e.g., supporting the functions/health of different organ systems, as well as correcting the functioning or even "curing" ailments striking several organs in our body.
Vitamin K2 - Vital for Health and Wellbeing has been produced and distributed through the support from Kappa Bioscience, Norway.
BT - Vitamin K2
SP - Ch. 14
UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/63342
DO - 10.5772/63342
SN - 978-953-51-3020-8
PB - IntechOpen
CY - Rijeka
Y2 - 2024-04-19
ER -