A thiamine deficiency means an individual has low levels of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in their body. Thiamine is an essential ...

Neuroscientist Gary Gibson, Ph.D. '73, keeps a framed picture of a cell derived from the skin cells of a person with ...

Jolliffe, McLester and Sherman, 10 in discussing the prevalence of various types of nutritional polyneuropathy in diabetic and alcoholic patients, suggested that thiamine deficiency might account ...

In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the ...

The active transport plays a larger role in thiamine absorption at lower doses compared to higher doses. These results contradict the results found by Thomson but is consistent with the animal ...