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"It is perfectly fine to be a vegetarian, but you should take care about what you're eating to ensure you don't become deficient in nutrients such as iron, zinc and B vitamins," says Rohrmann.

The immune response itself may become deficient in human diseases involving white cells, such as multiple myeloma, macroglobulinemia, Hodgkin's disease, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The overactivity of the parathyroids is ascribed to the fact that, prior to correction of the kidney disease, the glands have had to function at an abnormally high level for such a long time that the mechanisms for shutting them off have become deficient.

To test this idea, we obtained orexin/ataxin-3 (O/A3) mice, which become deficient in orexin neurons by about 12 weeks of age.

Their new estimate is that today 845 million people (11percentt of the world population) are "poised to become deficient in one of these three micronutrients if current trajectories in fish-catch declines continue" and that 1.39 billion people (19percentt) are vulnerable to deficiencies and health impacts attributable to their dependence on fish as a limiting source of those key nutrients.

Without a functional RPE65 gene, rod and cone photoreceptor cells become deficient in 11-cis retinal and are unable to respond to light [1].

However, in diseases such as osteoporosis this process becomes deficient and microcracks can accumulate.

Total myocardial copper levels became deficient in untreated diabetes but were normalized by TETA-treatment.

The importance of cortisol is especially evident when it becomes deficient in a state known as adrenal insufficiency [ 111].

But other studies concluded that visual input becomes less efficient with the length of time awake, or that the integration of visual information becomes deficient or slower [ 17].

124 Nevertheless, when glucose/glycogen concentration is reduced due to fasting or low carbohydrate intake, or when resulting from insulin resistance for example, oxaloacetate yield becomes deficient.