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What food provides the best source of folate?
Fruits and vegetables
What state does folate have to be in in order to be sent to circulation?
N
5
-Methyl THF
How is N
5
-methyl THF converted to THF?
Vitamin B
12
Homocysteine methyltransferase
What is the name for vitamin B
12
?
cobalamin
What are two detrimental results of low Vitamin B
12
?
1) Low folate = anemia
2) lack of methylation = no myelin sheath
What are four areas of the body affected by homocysteinuria?
Eye
Skeletal
CNS
Vascular
Is SAMe a substrate or an enzyme?
Substrate to carry methyl for other reactions
Author
kepling
ID
43605
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Folate and carbon.txt
Description
folate and carbon metabolism
Updated
10/20/2010, 3:39:57 AM
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