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Base Excision Repair, Folate Deficiency And Cancer, Archana Unnikrishnan
Base Excision Repair, Folate Deficiency And Cancer, Archana Unnikrishnan
Wayne State University Dissertations
Folate, an essential water soluble vitamin has been implicated in the etiology of many types of cancer especially colorectal cancer. Folate deficiency has been reported to incapacitate DNA repair pathways and thereby affect the genomic stability. Our lab has reported previously and here again through this research that folate deficiency affects the DNA damage inducibility of base excision repair pathway. Our study shows the differential effect folate deficiency has on the expression of the genes involved in this pathway. Further, our study shows the increase in preneoplastic lesions in the colon of mice exposed to folate deficiency in response to …