Alejandro Salvador Gómez-Cabrera, Ana Elizabeth González-Santiago, José Francisco Rodríguez-Mora, Guillermo Moisés Zúñiga-González, Belinda Claudia Gómez-Meda, Raúl Cuauhtémoc Baptista-Rosas, Rolando Castañeda-Arellano, Arieh Roldán Mercado-Sesma, Laura Yareni Zúñiga, María Guadalupe Sánchez-Parada
BACKGROUND: Cytogenotoxic damage caused by the consumption of legal and illegal drugs in drug abusers has been demonstrated, primarily due to alterations in their antioxidant capacity, cellular repair mechanisms, and increased production of free radicals. Folic acid shows antioxidant activity by acting as a reducing agent, neutralizing present free radicals, and reducing genomic damage. METHODS: The intervention involved administering 15 mg of folic acid, divided into three doses per day, to a group of 44 drug abusers...
February 2, 2024: Biomedicines