Folic acid is a B complex water-soluble vitamin that is essential to humans, and its deficiency can cause problems including congenital malformations in the fetus as well as heart disease. Most countries affected by diseases ...

Folate intake during pregnancy is essential for an adequate fetal and placental development, as well as for the long-term health condition. Because folate deficiency may induce fetal pathologies, including neural tube ...

Folic acid (FA) supplementation during carcinogenesis is controversial. Considering the impact of liver cancer as a public health problem and mandatory FA fortification in several countries, the role of FA supplementation ...

Objectives: Folate supplementation may be associated with an increased risk of developing several types of cancer and a derangement of immune function.Among the latter, Natural killer (NK) cells are involved in ...

Introduction Maternal folic acid deficiency is the most important metabolic factor in the etiology of neural tube defects (NTD) and is reduced by ethanol, which is extensively consumed by young women. Objective The objective ...

Ionizing radiation induces DNA damage through the production of single-strand breaks, double-strand breaks and reactive oxygen species. Folic acid (FA) can prevent DNA damage. We hypothesized that in vitro supplementation ...

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of folic acid supplementation on isolated oral cleft recurrence and fetal growth. Patients and Methods: The study included 2,508 women who were at-risk for oral cleft recurrence and ...

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of folic acid supplementation on isolated oral cleft recurrence and fetal growth. Patients and Methods: The study included 2,508 women who were at-risk for oral cleft recurrence and ...

Haematological response and growth performance over 150 days, and resistance to a low-temperature stress of Nile tilapia fed diets with increasing folic acid (FA) levels were evaluated. The experiment was conducted in a ...