Carbon flow through the hepatic folate-dependent one-carbon pool is not altered in vitamin A-deficient rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 668-672

  Schalinske, Kevin L ^a   Steele, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

folate; one carbon metabolism; rats; tracer kinetic techniques; vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; METHIONINE; RETINOL; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLATE METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REACTION ANALYSIS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0029947237     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/126.3.668     Document Type: Article

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