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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS

SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH

biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology

Cobalamin neuropathy. Is S-adenosylhomocysteine toxicity a factor?

Biochemical Journal, Volume 266, No. 3, Year 1990

Cobalamin neuropathy was produced in cape fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) by a cobalamin-free diet combined with intermittent exposure to nitrous oxide, which inactivates cobalamin. There were no significant differences in S-adenosylmethionine/S-adenosylhomocysteine ratios in the central nervous system of cobalamin-deficient and cobalamin-replete bats. Taken with other data there are no grounds of support for a hypothesis that cobalamin neuropathy is the result of impaired methylation, however produced.
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