How to distinguish thiamin (vitamin B1) and riboflavin (vitamin B2) in local food resources, the importance, and measurement of the concentration
Interdisziplinäres Projekt
- Beschreibung
Vitamins B are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism. These are mostly precursors of enzyme components. Therefore, the B-group vitamins are important in the context of hormone production, affect blood circulation, participate in carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism and contribute to blood formation and healthy nerve function. There are eight B vitamins, collectively called B complex vitamins.
Vitamin B is found in a variety of foods such as meat, egg, legumes, whole grains, dark leafy vegetables and fruits. Deficiency of Vitamin B can cause a disease "Beri-Beri" (the signs are nerve inflammation with paralysis and heart failure), Increased risk of birth defect (in pregnancy), mood changes (irritability, forgetfulness), sore mouth and diarrhoea,unsteadiness and poor muscle coordination.
Thiamin and Riboflavin has the quite similar but different role in metabolism. Physiologic roles of thiamin is as Co-enzyme functions in metabolism of carbohydrates and branched-chain amino acids while roboflavin as Co-enzyme functions in numerous oxidation and reduction reactions. Both of vitamins and together with other compound of vitamin B play an importance role in human metabolism.
The students will be involved in the analysis the importance of vitamin B1 and B2 and measure the concentration in food.
- Beschreibung des interdisziplinären Teils des Projekts
- The students will learn about the basic methods in laboratory, therefore it is open for all disciplines
- Projektzeitraum
- Sommersemester 2020
- Bewerbungszeitraum
- 20.04. bis 03.05.2020
- Durchführung
- semesterbegleitend
- Details zu Projektzeitraum und Durchführung
During semester time and based on agreement
- Studienfach
- offen für alle Studienfächer
- Betreuende
- Institut
- Institut für Ernährungswissenschaften (140) (Ernährungswissenschaften)
- Sprache
- englisch
- Teilnehmendenanzahl
- min. 1, max. 1
- Arbeitsaufwand
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ca. 90 Stunden pro Teilnehmende:r
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ECTS-Punkte
Arbeitsaufwand (Stunden und ggf. ECTS) sind ungefähre Angaben. Die tatsächlich vergebenen ECTS-Punkte ergeben sich aus der tatsächlich geleisteten Arbeit.
- Für dieses Projekt ist kein Motivationsschreiben des Studierenden erforderlich
- Projektart
- experimentell
- Lernziele
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Die Teilnehmende lernen in diesem Projekt:
The students will learn to do vitamin B1 and B2 analysis
- Anmerkungen für Studierende
- Schlagworte
- vitamin B1, vitamin B2, local food