title: [Theoretical and practical aspects of modern vitaminology].
abstract: General subjects and achievements of modern vitaminology are discussed. The most impressive success in fundamental vitaminology during last three-four decades was achieved in the following areas: elucidation of vitamins metabolic roles and molecular mechanisms in their action; development and improvement of highly sensitive modern methods for analytical vitamins determination in biological objects and food; creation of reliable criteria and methods for human vitamin status assessment; examination of physiological human vitamin requirements and establishment of Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) or Adequate Levels (AL) of their intake; elaboration of scientifical grounds for reasonable vitamins application in diseases prevention and treatment. In the field of applied vitaminology main attention during last decades was given to the next subjects: regular broad vitamin status examination of representative groups of population; reasoning, development, realization and evaluation of broad scale measures for prevention of vitamin insufficiency and improvement of vitamin status of population; development and industrial production of vitamins, multivitamin-mineral preparations and various vitamin enriched foodstuffs for the same purpose. Decrease of state financial support for fundamental studies and cessation of such a support for applied investigation make it necessary to organize nonstate commercial scientific-technologic center functioning on the requests of vitamin producers and consumers.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Spirichev
mesh_terms: D001361:Avitaminosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004345:Drug Industry; D006801:Humans; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D014815:Vitamins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D014815:Vitamins