Folate-homocysteine interrelations: Potential new markers of folate status

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-35

  Lucock, M D ^a   Daskalakis, I ^a   Schorah, C J ^a   Lumb, C H ^a   Oliver, M ^a   Devitt, H ^a   Wild, J ^a   Dowell, A C ^a   Levene, M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FOLYLPOLYGLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLATE METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOASSAY;

LACTOBACILLUS CASEI;

EID: 0032790492     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mgme.1999.2813     Document Type: Article

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