Vitamins, amino acids, and drugs and formulations used in nutrition

The Side Effects of Drugs Annuals form a series of volumes in which the adverse effects of drugs and adverse reactions to them are surveyed. The series supplements the contents of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: the International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions. This review of the 2011 publications on vitamins, amino acids, and drugs and formulations used in nutrition covers vitamin A (carotenoids), vitamins of the B group (cobalamins, folic acid and folinic acid, hopantenic acid, pyridoxine, riboflavin, tetrahydrobiopterin and sapropterin, and thiamine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin D analogues, vitamin E (tocopherol), vitamin K analogues, amino acids (arginine, glycine, and ornithine), and enteral and parenteral nutrition. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.