“…High affinity folate receptors (FR), 2 which were first introduced to the biomedical literature 30 years ago (2), are critical for the cellular uptake of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in several human (normal and cancer) cells (3). Among three human FR (FR-␣, FR-, and FR-␥), the FR-␣ are ubiquitous and physiologically relevant for proper development of the neural tube and neural crest (4,5), for hematopoiesis (6), for transplacental maternal-to-fetal folate transport (7), for cerebral folate transport (8), and for renal conservation of folates (3,9,10).…”