Supplemental dietary folic acid has no effect on chromosome damage in erythrocyte progenitor cells of mice

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 813-817

  Swayne, Breanne G ^a   Behan, Nathalie A ^b   Williams, Andrew ^a   Stover, Patrick J ^c   Yauk, Carole L ^a   MacFarlane, Amanda J ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Health Canada and World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Standardization and Evaluation of Biologicals   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; LACTATION; MALE; MATURITY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RETICULOCYTE; STEM CELL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEANING;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA METHYLATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RETICULOCYTES; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; WEANING;

MUS;

EID: 84862067288     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.157750     Document Type: Article

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