title: Folic acid age correlation established on folates determinations in cell homogenates.
abstract: From the available data, there has resulted that folic acid quantity in homogenate, coming from various organs, collected from young animals is much larger than for the other age categories. These results may be correlated with intense cell proliferation and development processes that take place in the young tissues as compared to rather low values established from grown-ups and old ranges. When comparing the folates quantity found in homogenate resulting from various organs we may ascertain that, if the folates are related to grams of tissue under the test, they are more in spleen than in kidneys, liver and brains respectively. If the folates are reported to tissue protein milligrams it may be ascertained that a larger quantity of folates is found in the brains than in the other studied organs that may be due to big dilution of the proteins in the brains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Atanasiu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vătafu
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001738:Biuret Reaction; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D005492:Folic Acid / Q000032:analysis*; D007668:Kidney / Q000737:chemistry; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D051381:Rats; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013154:Spleen / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D005492:Folic Acid