Article
Nutrition Throughout Life: Folate
1 Oct 2012
Abstract excerpt
Scientific evidence supports a number of roles for folate in maintaining health from early life to old age. Folate is required for one-carbon metabolism, including the remethylation of homocysteine to methionine; thus elevated plasma homocysteine reflects functional folate deficiency. Optimal folate status has an established role in preventing NTD and there is strong evidence indicating that it also has a role in...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
