title: Vitamin E: Textbooks require updating.
abstract: Vitamin E was discovered in 1922, but in more than 60 years many new findings have added to the early one. However, its description in many textbooks has not been proportionally updated. The result is an inaccurate, incomplete, and often incorrect description of the function of this vitamin. In some other textbooks, vitamin E is absolutely neglected. In almost all books the existence of vitamin E deficiency diseases is ignored. Recent findings on vitamin E molecular functions and its related diseases are described in this article.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. angelo.azzi@mci.unibe.ch.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Azzi
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zingg