Risk of neural tube defect-affected pregnancy is associated with a block in maternal one-carbon metabolism at the level of N-5- methyltetrahydrofolate: Homocysteine methyltransferase

Biochemical and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-40

  Lucock, M D ^a   Wild, J ^a   Lumb, C H ^a   Oliver, M ^a   Kendall, R ^b   Daskalakis, I ^a   Schorah, C J ^a   Levene, M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; METABOLISM; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

EID: 0031170999     PISSN: 10773150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bmme.1997.2580     Document Type: Article

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