Advances and Controversies in B-Vitamins and Choline 2012

Topics: Biochemistry, Toxicology, Keywords:

Date: /5/6/7/8/ March 2012, Leipzig, Germany, Europe

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Confirmed Presentations

Plenary Session • Advances in Cobalamin Research

• Advances In Cobalamin Research: Targeting The Transcobalamin Receptor TCblR/CD320
• Insights into functional cobalamin deficiency: the MMACHC proteome

Plenary Session • B-Vitamins and age-associated diseases: 1. Neurology

• Antiepileptic drugs and B-Vitamins: epidemiological and electrophysiological data
• Normal prions as a new target of cobalamin deficiency in rat CNS

Plenary Session • B-Vitamins and age-associated diseases: 3. Osteoporosis

• The Role of homocysteine and b-vitamins in bone
• The effect of one year B + D vitamin supplementation on bone turnover markers, metabolites and vitamin status
• Homocysteine mediated decrease in bone blood flow and remodeling: Role of folic acid

Plenary Session • B-Vitamins and choline: Alcohol and liver function

• Abnormal transmethylation and transsulfuration pathways in the pathogenesis and treatment of alcoholic liver disease
• Choline as a treatment for fetal alchohol spectrum disorders
• Cobalamin and hyperhomocysteinemia in alcoholic liver disease

Plenary Session • B-Vitamins: Pre- and postnatal health

• Molecular mechanisms of B-vitamin deficiency in neural tube defects and other birth defects
• Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy and cancer risk in the offspring

Plenary Session • Molecular mechanisms

• Folic acid and homocysteine: from coronary vasodilation to neuroprotection

Plenary Session • Nutrients as methyl donors

• Metabolic and Functional Effects of Choline in Cystic Fibrosis
• Betaine, a methyl donor and osmolyte: the BHMT pathway
• Riboflavin as a determinant of iron status

Plenary Session • (Epi)genetics, Diseases: The role of nutrients

• The role of epigenetics in neurodegeneration
• Epigenomis effects of methyl donors deficiency
• Epigenetics and Choline

Plenary Session • Concerns on B-vitamin supplementation: cancer risk

• Folate Intake Modulates Carcinogenesis: Mechanisms and Consequences

Plenary Session • B-vitamins & Diabetes and renal dysfunction

• Intracellular cobalamin status in diabetes and polyneuropathy
• Mechanisms of H₂S signalling in hemodialysis

Plenary Session • Transsulfuration and glutathione metabolism

• Cystathionine gamma-lyase dependent H₂S formation in perivascular adipose tissue in fructose-induced metabolic syndrome
• H₂S Biogenesis via the Transsulfuration Pathway