Background Older adults are reported to have sub-optimal B vitamin status; targeted food-based solutions may help to address this. The objectives of the OptiAge food intervention study were to develop and investigate the effectiveness of a B vitamin ...
Maria Heffernan +11 more
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Serum vitamin D levels in high-risk HPV infected patients, is there any relation? [PDF]
Objective: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a sexually transmittable virus and is the main etiologic cause of uterine cervical cancers. Beyond that, vitamin D is a steroid structured lipid-soluble vitamin, enhancing both humoral and cellular immune ...
Anil Turhan Cakir, Muhammet Atay Ozten
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Interactions between vitamin B2, the MTRR rs1801394 and MTR rs1805087 genetic polymorphisms, and colorectal cancer risk in a Korean population [PDF]
OBJECTIVES We explored whether the association between vitamin B2 and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk could be modified by the MTRR rs1801394 and MTR rs1805087 genetic polymorphisms and examined whether the interaction effects are sex-specific.
Madhawa Gunathilake +7 more
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Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease with Anti-Homocysteic acid Antibody [PDF]
Homocysteic acid (HA) may play an important role in Alzhiemer disease (AD) as we previously reported that HA induced accumulation of intraneuronal A[beta]42. In this study, we first analyzed HA levels in a mouse model of AD.
Frank M. LaFerla +3 more
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A double-blind, randomized, comparative study of the use of a combination of uridine triphosphate trisodium, cytidine monophosphate disodium, and hydroxocobalamin, versus isolated treatment with hydroxocobalamin, in patients presenting with compressive neuralgias [PDF]
CONTEXT: This paper reports on the results of treatment of compressive neuralgia using a combination of nucleotides (uridine triphosphate trisodium [UTP] and cytidine monophosphate disodium [CMP]) and vitamin B(12).
Buchman, Luiz +9 more
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Hyperhomocysteinemia in pediatric β-thalassemia: links to vitamin cofactor deficiencies and oxidative stress [PDF]
Background Homocysteine metabolism is crucial to maintaining vascular and metabolic homeostasis, yet its dysregulation in pediatric β-thalassemia major (β-TM) remains poorly understood.
Arzu Dadashova +4 more
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Toward eradication of B-vitamin deficiencies : considerations for crop biofortification [PDF]
'Hidden hunger' involves insufficient intake of micronutrients and is estimated to affect over two billion people on a global scale. Malnutrition of vitamins and minerals is known to cause an alarming number of casualties, even in the developed world ...
Strobbe, Simon +1 more
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Background. Vitamins В6 В12 and folic acid (FA) therapy to reduce cardiovascular risk appears to be unreasonable. Negative results of recent large-scale trials might be due to high daily doses of the vitamins and widespread FA fortification programmes ...
O. O. Shakhmatova +6 more
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Women in resource-poor settings are at risk of inadequate intakes of multiple micronutrients.
A systematic review was conducted to identify all studies that were published between 1988 and 2008 reporting micronutrient intakes of women in resource-poor settings.
Arimond, Mary +3 more
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Assessment of vitamin E status in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome: plasma, plasma corrected for lipids or red blood cell measurements? [PDF]
<b>Background:</b> There is some evidence that the plasma vitamin E status is perturbed as part of systemic inflammatory response and correcting this with other plasma markers may not lead to reliable results.
Duncan, A. +6 more
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