Is hyperhomocysteinemia due to the oxidative depletion of folate rather than to insufficient dietary intake?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 691-694

  Fuchs, D ^a   Jaeger, M ^a   Widner, B ^a   Wirleitner, B ^a   Artner Dworzak, E ^a   Leblhuber, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Folate; Homocysteine; Neopterin; Oxidative stress; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; NEOPTERIN; TETRAHYDROFOLIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DIET; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEOPTERIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; VASCULAR DISEASES; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 0034819473     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2001.113     Document Type: Article

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