New insights into carrier binding and epithelial uptake of the erythropoietic nutrients cobalamin and folate

Current Opinion in Hematology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 119-123

  Moestrup, Søren K ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cobalamin binding proteins and receptors; Folate binding proteins and receptors; Megaloblastic anemia

Indexed keywords

AMNIONLESS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; COBALAMIN; COBALAMIN RECEPTOR; CUBULIN; FOLATE RECEPTOR; FOLIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; HAPTOCORRIN; INTRINSIC FACTOR; MEGALIN; TRANSCOBALAMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN RECEPTOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIUM; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; MALNUTRITION; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 2; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 33646770366     PISSN: 10656251     EISSN: 15317048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.moh.0000219654.65538.5b     Document Type: Review

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