Folate Catabolites in Spot Urine as Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Folate Status during Habitual Intake and Folic Acid Supplementation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Niesser, Mareile ^a   Demmelmair, Hans ^a   Weith, Thea ^a   Moretti, Diego ^b,c   Rauh Pfeiffer, Astrid ^a   van Lipzig, Marola ^d   Vaes, Wouter ^d   Koletzko, Berthold ^a   Peissner, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID CATABOLITE; FOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PARA ACETAMIDOBENZOYLGLUTAMATE; PARA AMINOBENZOYLGLUTAMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; FOLATE METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPOT URINE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOLIC ACID; GLUTAMATES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; URINALYSIS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 6; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874010104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056194     Document Type: Article

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