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Abstract
The metabolism of 2-[14C] folic acid has been studied in rats with an implanted Walker 256 tumour and in a closely matched group of controls. In animals with tumours, more of the labelled folic acid is converted to 10-formyltetrahydrofolate and 10-formylfolate than in normal animals. No 5-methyltetrahydrofolate could be detected in tumour tissue, or in the livers of tumour-bearing animals. When a mixture of 2-[14C]- and 3',5',9-[3H]-folic acid is given to tumour-bearing rats a similar pattern of metabolites is found. There is apparenly less scission of the folate molecule in tumour-bearing rats than in normal rats.Entities:
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Year: 1978 PMID: 687509 PMCID: PMC2009699 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1978.171
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640