The nutritional burden of methylation reactions

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-108

  Bertolo, Robert F ^a   McBreairty, Laura E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

infant nutrition; methionine requirement; methyl groups; remethylation; transmethylation

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CHOLINE; CREATINE; FOLIC ACID; METHIONINE; METHYL GROUP; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GROWTH; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; METHYLATION; NUTRITION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BETAINE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; METHIONINE; METHYLATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES;

EID: 84871928747     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32835ad2ee     Document Type: Review

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