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Homocysteine Homeostasis and Betaine-Homocysteine S-Methyltransferase Expression in the Brain of Hibernating Bats

Elevated homocysteine is an important risk factor that increases cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative disease morbidity. In mammals, B vitamin supplementation can reduce homocysteine levels. Whether, and how, hibernating mammals, that essentially stop ingesting B vitamins, maintain homocysteine met...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yijian, Zhu, Tengteng, Wang, Lina, Pan, Yi-Hsuan, Zhang, Shuyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085632