Folic Acid Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Folic Acid, including details on folate, deficiency, pregnancy, benefits, sources, side-effects.

Volume 3 (2006), Issue 4 (April)

1. Pretreatment plasma folate modulates the pharmacodynamic effect of high-dose methotrexate in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: "folate overrescue" concept revisited.
   Clin Chem, 52(4): 692-700. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Homocysteine lowering and cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction.
   N Engl J Med, 354(15): 1578-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Homocysteine lowering with folic acid and B vitamins in vascular disease.
   N Engl J Med, 354(15): 1567-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Activation of methyltetrahydrofolate by cobalamin-independent methionine synthase.
   Biochemistry, 45(16): 5092-102. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Folate supplementation during pregnancy improves offspring cardiovascular dysfunction induced by protein restriction.
   Hypertension, 47(5): 982-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Multidrug resistance proteins and folate supplementation: therapeutic implications for antifolates and other classes of drugs in cancer treatment.
   Cancer Chemother Pharmacol, 58(1): 1-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Folic acid: a public-health challenge.
   Lancet, 367(9519): 1352-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Maternal folic acid supplementation to dams on marginal protein level alters brain fatty acid levels of their adult offspring.
   Metabolism, 55(5): 628-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Is there a folate-related gene-environment interaction in the etiology of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia?
   Int J Cancer, 119(1): 229-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression gives prostate cancer cells a growth advantage in a physiologically relevant folate environment in vitro.
    Prostate, 66(8): 867-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Folate receptor specific anti-tumor activity of folate-mitomycin conjugates.
    Cancer Chemother Pharmacol, 58(2): 229-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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