Combined dietary folate, vitamin B-12, and vitamin B-6 intake influences plasma docosahexaenoic acid concentration in rats

Background: Folate, vitamin B-12, and vitamin B-6 are essential nutritional components in one-carbon metabolism and are required for methylation capacity. The availability of these vitamins may therefore modify methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) to phosphatidylcholine (PC) by PE-N-methyltr...

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Main Authors: van Wijk, Nick (Author), Watkins, Carol J. (Contributor), Hageman, Robert J. J. (Author), Sijben, John C. W. (Author), Kamphuis, Patrick G. H. J. (Author), Wurtman, Richard Jay (Contributor), Broersen, Laus M. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd, 2012-08-16T18:33:57Z.
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