Folate status and a new repletion cut-off value in a group of healthy Majorcan women

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-58

  Martín, Immaculada ^a   Obrador, Antoni ^a   Gibert, M José ^a   Hernanz, Angel ^b   Fuster, Alberto ^a   Pintos, Concepción ^a   Garcia, Ana ^a   Tur, Josep ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

C677T allele; Erythrocyte folate; Folate status; Homocysteine; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; Serum folate

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; THREONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMMUNOASSAY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 12244269347     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/clnu.2002.0591     Document Type: Article

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