Choline supplemented as phosphatidylcholine decreases fasting and postmethionine-loading plasma homocysteine concentrations in healthy men

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-117

  Olthof, Margreet R ^a,c   Brink, Elizabeth J ^b   Katan, Martijn B ^a   Verhoef, Petra ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Choline; Homocysteine; Humans; Methionine loading; Phosphatidylcholine

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FATTY ACID; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; LIPID; METHIONINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOADING TEST; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CHOLINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FASTING; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES;

EID: 23444438532     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn.82.1.111     Document Type: Article

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