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B6 often refers to: * Vitamin B6 B6 may also refer to: Transportation Automobiles * A generation of Audi A4, manufactured from 2001 to 2005 * A fully armoured version of the Bentley Arnage Series Two RL * A member of the Mazda B engine series Aircraft * Blackburn B.6 Shark, a British 1930s torpedo bomber * Keystone B-6, a United States Army Air Corps bomber *Lohner B.VI, an Austro-Hungarian World War 1 reconnaissance biplane * Nakajima B-6, Nakajima designation for Bréguet 14 built under licence in Japan * Republic B 6, Swedish designation for Republic 2PA fighter Other vehicles * B6 (New York City bus), serving Brooklyn * Bavarian B VI, an 1863 German steam locomotive model * , a submarine of the Royal Navy * , a submarine of Norway Roads * B6 road (Cyprus), a road on the island of Cyprus * B6 (Zimbabwe), a road in Zimbabwe * Bundesstraße 6, a national highway in Germany Life sciences * Vitamin B6, a water-soluble compound pyridoxine which takes several forms * ATC c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 is one of the B vitamins, and thus an essential nutrient. The term refers to a group of six chemically similar compounds, i.e., "vitamers", which can be interconverted in biological systems. Its active form, pyridoxal 5′-phosphate, serves as a coenzyme in more than 140 enzyme reactions in amino acid, glucose, and lipid metabolism. Plants synthesize pyridoxine as a means of protection from the ultraviolet-B radiation of sunlight and to participate in synthesis of chlorophyll. Animals cannot synthesize any of the various forms of the vitamin, and hence must obtain it via diet, either of plants, or of other animals. There is some absorption of the vitamin produced by intestinal bacteria, but this is not sufficient to meet needs. For adult humans, recommendations from various countries' food regulatory agencies are in the range of 1.0 to 2.0 milligrams (mg) per day. These same agencies also recognize ill effects from intakes that are too high, and so set safe upper l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
