Folate nutrition and blood-brain barrier dysfunction. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Mammals require essential nutrients from dietary sources to support normal metabolic, physiological and neuronal functions, to prevent diseases of nutritional deficiency as well as to prevent chronic disease. Disease and/or its treatment can modify fundamental biological processes including cellular nutrient accretion, stability and function in cells. These effects can be isolated to a specific diseased organ in the absence of whole-body alterations in nutrient status or biochemistry. Loss of blood-brain barrier function, which occurs in in-born errors of metabolism and in chronic disease, can cause brain-specific folate deficiency and contribute to disease co-morbidity. The role of brain folate deficiency in neuropsychiatric disorders is reviewed, as well as emerging diagnostic and nutritional strategies to identify and address brain folate deficiency in blood-brain barrier dysfunction.

published proceedings

  • Curr Opin Biotechnol

altmetric score

  • 1.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Stover, P. J., Durga, J., & Field, M. S.

citation count

  • 37

complete list of authors

  • Stover, Patrick J||Durga, Jane||Field, Martha S

publication date

  • April 2017