Thiamine

Cancer Terms -> Drugs and Chemicals -> Food and Food Product -> Dietary Component -> Bioactive Food Component -> Vitamin -> Water-Soluble Vitamin -> B Vitamin -> Thiamine

Thiamine Definition

A heat-labile and water-soluble essential vitamin, belonging to the vitamin B family, with antioxidant, erythropoietic, mood modulating, and glucose-regulating activities. Thiamine reacts with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to form an active coenzyme, thiamine pyrophosphate. Thiamine pyrophosphate is necessary for the actions of pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate in carbohydrate metabolism and for the actions of transketolase, an enzyme that plays an important role in the pentose phosphate pathway. Thiamine plays a key role in intracellular glucose metabolism and may inhibit the action of glucose and insulin on arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation. Thiamine may also protect against lead toxicity by inhibiting lead-induced lipid peroxidation.

Thiamine Synonyms

Thiamine, 2-[3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-pyrimidin-5-yl)methyl]-4-methyl-1-thia-3-azoniacyclopenta-2,4-dien-5-yl]ethanol, Aneurin, B1 Vitamin, THIAMINE, Thiamin, Vit B1, Vitamin B1, Vitamin-B1

Thiamine

Thiamine Definition

Thiamine Synonyms

Terms in Thiamine category