by The Francis Crick Institute Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Imperial College London, have discovered that breast cancer cells expressing a cancer-driving gene heavily rely on vitamin B5 to grow and survive. The researchers are part of Cancer...
BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES | MARCH 15, 2023 Vitamin B5 is part of the B complex vitamin family, which, like its cousins, helps the body convert food into fuel that the body uses for energy. Interested in learning more about vitamin B5? Keep reading! What is vitamin B5? The other name for vitamin B5 is...
by The Francis Crick Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London and the Francis Crick Institute, have uncovered why patients with a rare type of blood cancer suffer from ineffective red blood cell production, and how vitamin B5 could be combined with existing drugs to improve...
by American Physiological Society Graphical abstract. Credit: American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism (2022). DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00293.2021 Pantothenate acid, also known as vitamin B5, stimulated the production of brown fat in both cell cultures and mice, a new study finds. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. It was chosen as an...
