Vitamin B5 Case Study

Belonging to the B-complex vitamin family, an optimal amount of vitamin B5 should be included in a healthy diet to ensure good health and proper functioning of all the organ systems. This vitamin serves a wide range of functions in the body, from the production neurotransmitters in the brain, the fabrication of steroids, enhancing the immune system to the extraction of fats, proteins and other important nutrients from food. Vitamin B5 is also found in blood plasma and is sometimes called panthenoic acid/pantothenol, however, pantothenol is a provitamin, the alcoholic form of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), humectant substance, which attracts, holds and binds water, which is largely used in healthcare and cosmetic products. Source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103530/
Provitamin B5 can play a key role in the processes of speeding up the reconstruction and healing of the epithelium, through its regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties. One study sought to assess how the wounds of cornea and/or conjunctiva heal after the application of a gel combination of provitamin B5 and D-panthenol. The study involved testing the activity of medicine, containing 5% drops and 5% gel of D-panthenol in 40 eyes in the test group, and 40 eyes in the control group that did not receive D-panthenol, and the results showed that provitamin B5 effectively accelerates the processes of healing the wounds of conjunctiva and cornea. Source
According to researchers, pantothenic acid is one of a relatively few nutrients for which the intraerythrocytic (situated in the red blood cells) parasite has an absolute and acute requirement from the external medium, and provitamin pantothenol does not serve as a source of pantothenic acid, but instead, it inhibits the in vitro growth of P. falciparum. Source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15673744 This occurs through a mechanism that involves competition with pantothenate (a component of coenzyme A) and