Vitamin K4

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Vitamin K4 is a name for one or more specific compounds with vitamin K activity.

K4 may refer to menadiol[1][2] or to various menadiol esters, like menadiol diacetate (acetomenaphthone),[3][4] menadiol dibutyrate[4] or menadiol dimalonate.[2] K4 may also mean various phosphate or sulfate salts, like menadiol sodium diphosphate[2][4] or menadiol sodium disulfate.[4]

  • Menadiol

  • Menadiol diacetate

  • Menadiol dibutyrate

References[]

  1. ^ Fiore LD, et al. (2001). "Anaphylactoid reactions to vitamin K". Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 11 (2): 175–183. doi:10.1023/A:1011237019082. ISSN 0929-5305. PMID 11406734. S2CID 975055.
  2. ^ a b c Sebrell WH, et al. (1971). The vitamins; chemistry, physiology, pathology, methods (2nd ed.). Academic Press. p. 443. ISBN 9780126337631.
  3. ^ "Vitamin K2 added for nutritional purposes in foods for particular nutritional uses, food supplements and foods intended for the general population and Vitamin K2 as a source of vitamin K added for nutritional purposes to foodstuffs, in the context of Regulation (EC) N° 258/97". EFSA Journal. 6 (11): 822. 2008. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2008.822. ISSN 1831-4732.
  4. ^ a b c d Oketch-Rabah HA, Roe AL, Marles RJ (2017). "US Pharmacopeial Convention safety evaluation of menaquinone-7, a form of vitamin K". Nutrition Reviews. 75 (7): 553–578. doi:10.1093/nutrit/nux022. ISSN 0029-6643. PMID 28838081.
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