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General description
Folic acid (FA)/pterylmonoglutamic acid[1] helps to block neural tube defects (NTDs).[2]
Application
Folic acid has been used:
to study the role of vitamins and amino acids on hybridoma growth and monoclonal antibody production[3]
in cells and treatments[4]
in perforin gene targeting using the CRISPR/Cas gene editing approach[5]
Biochem/physiol Actions
A nutritional delivery form of folate. Folic acid and its derivatives are essential mediators of one-carbon metabolism within cells.
