Folate deficiency and over-supplementation causes impaired folate metabolism: Regulation and adaptation mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 949-956

  Ortbauer, Martina ^a   Ripper, Doris ^a   Fuhrmann, Thomas ^a,b   Lassi, Maximilian ^a   Auernigg Haselmaier, Sandra ^a   Stiegler, Christina ^a   König, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Folate deficiency; Folic acid over supplementation; Impaired folate metabolism; Polymorphisms; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FOLIC ACID; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUTCH SIZE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUTCH SIZE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 84955571548     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201500819     Document Type: Article

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