Folic acid metabolism in health and disease

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Folic acid metabolism in health and disease

editors, Mary Frances Picciano, E.L. Robert Stokstad, Jesse F. Gregory III

(Contemporary issues in clinical nutrition, v. 13)

Wiley-Liss, c1990

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Papers from a symposium held in Los Angeles in Sept. 1988 sponsored by the Food and Nutritional Biochemistry Subdivision of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society

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Description

This book deals with the biochemical and physiological characteristics of folic acid and examines how this important nutrient is absorbed and metabolized under different biological conditions. It comprehensively covers recent advances in the metabolic processing of folic acid, as well as the latest analytical and clinical methods for assessing the bioavailability of food folates and evaluating folic nutrition levels in individuals and population groups.

Table of Contents

  • Historical Perspective on Key Advances in the Biochemistry and Physiology of Folates
  • Intestinal Absorption of Dietary Folates
  • Intestinal Transport of Monoglutamyl Folates in Mammalian Systems
  • Folate Metabolism
  • Synergistic Growth Inhibition by Combination of Antifolates
  • Proteins Involved in the Transport of Folates and Antifolates by Normal and Neoplastic Cells
  • Microbiological Assay of Folates
  • Animal Assays for Folate Bioavailability: A Critical Evaluation
  • Stable-Isotopic Methods for "in vivo" Investigation of Folate Absorption and Metabolism
  • Analysis of Tissue Folate Composition
  • Development of Human Folate Deficiency
  • Evaluation of Folate Nutrition in Population Groups
  • Folate Nutrition in Infancy
  • Folate Nutrition in Adolescents and Adults
  • Drug-Folate Interrelationships: Historical Aspects and Current Concepts.

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