The nexus of vitamin homeostasis and DNA synthesis and modification in mammalian brain

Molecular Brain

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Spector, Reynold ^a   Johanson, Conrad E ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Brown University Program in Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Choroid plexus; Folates; Hydroxymethyldeoxycytidine; Neuronal DNA; Ten eleven translocation enzymes

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLDEOXYCYTIDINE; ASCORBIC ACID; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE; DNA; FOLIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID PLEXUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXCISION REPAIR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; VITAMIN HOMEOSTASIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

EID: 84892425393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17566606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-7-3     Document Type: Review

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