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Record W4211219267 · doi:10.1080/20014091084209

Folic Acid

2001· review· en· W4211219267 on OpenAlexaff
James G. Donnelly

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences · 2001
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFolate and B Vitamins Research
Canadian institutionsOttawa HospitalUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMegaloblastic anemiaNeural tubeCofactorBiochemistryBiologyFolic acidMetabolismMethylenetetrahydrofolate reductaseB vitaminsChemistryInternal medicineEndocrinologyMedicineVitamin B12EnzymeGeneticsAlleleGene

Abstract

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Folic acid is an essential nutrient from the B complex group of vitamins. Folate, as a cofactor, is involved in numerous intracellular reactions, and this is reflected in the various derivatives that have been isolated from biological sources. Folic acid is involved in single carbon transfer reactions and serves as a source of single carbon units in different oxidative states. The processes involved in the absorption, transport, and intracellular metabolism of this cofactor are complex. Much of folate is bound tightly to enzymes, indicating that there is not excess of this cofactor and that its cellular availability is protected as well as being strictly regulated. In animals, the liver controls the supply of folate through first pass metabolism, biliary secretion, enterohepatic recirculation, as well as through senescent erythrocyte recycling. Deficiencies of folate can occur for many reasons, including reduced intake, increased metabolism, and/or increased requirements as well as through genetic defects. The effects of folate deficiency include hyperhomocysteinemia, megaloblastic anemia, and mood disorders. Folate deficiency has also been implicated in disorders associated with neural tube defects. Supplementation of grain products such as cereals has been undertaken in several countries as a cost-effective means of reducing the prevelance of neural tube defects. Recently, common polymorphisms have been discovered in several genes associated with folate pathways that may play a role in diseases associated with folate deficiency, particularly mild folate deficiency.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.012

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.468
GPT teacher head0.624
Teacher spread0.155 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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