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History of Vitamin E Research

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Vitamin E in Human Health

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Abstract

This chapter highlights the achievements in vitamin E research of the last decades including the adventurous early years of the discovery of this fat-soluble vitamin almost 100 years ago.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Olcott and Mattill suggested the following interpretation of the experimental data: “…has thus far prevented an understanding of the function of vitamin E whether it is itself an antioxidant or whether its presence in food is dependent upon the presence of antioxygenic substances which protect it against oxidation” [4].

  2. 2.

    Isler synthesized d,l α-tocopherol in the laboratories of Hoffmann-La Roche and showed its biological activity.

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  2. University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Nutritional, Food and Consumer Sciences, Fulda, Germany

    Marc Birringer

  3. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

    Jeffrey B. Blumberg

  4. University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplain 1, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Manfred Eggersdorfer

  5. University of Hohenheim, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Stuttgart , Germany

    Jan Frank

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Portrait of Herbert M. Evans in laboratory, with signed inscription to J. C. Drummond, 11 January 1927 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_M._Evans#/media/File:Herbert_McLean_Evans_1927.jpg

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Erhard Fernholz. Copy from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Fernholz#/media/File:Erhard_Fernholz.jpg

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Paul Karrer. Copy from: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karrer#/media/File:Paul_Karrer.jpg

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Birringer, M., Blumberg, J.B., Eggersdorfer, M., Frank, J., Weber, P. (2019). History of Vitamin E Research. In: Weber, P., Birringer, M., Blumberg, J., Eggersdorfer, M., Frank, J. (eds) Vitamin E in Human Health. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05315-4_2

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