Homocysteine is the predecessor to cysteine based on its involvement in the metabolic pathway of methionine. Factors like lifestyle habits, nutritional status, and chronic disease states can lead ...

An international research team has published a study in the journal The FEBS Journal that significantly advances the ...

Since homocysteine is a natural part of the body's metabolism, the researchers wanted to investigate metabolic pathways involving homocysteine in both rodents and humans with glaucoma.

Decreased levels of vitamin cofactors such as vitamins B6 and B12 and folate, which are essential to the folate-methionine metabolic pathway, can also increase homocysteine levels.