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, Watkins, Carol J., Hageman, Robert J. J., Sijben, John C. W., Kamphuis, Patrick G. H. J., Wurtman, Richard Jay, Broersen, Laus M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72173
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8286-6825