Age-related cysteine uptake as rate-limiting in glutathione synthesis and glutathione half-life in the cultured human lens

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 205-212

  Rathbun, William B ^a   Murray, Debra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

buthionine sulfoximine; cysteine metabolism; glutathione half life; glutathione synthesis; human lens culture; oxidized glutathione; rate limiting factor; reduced glutathione

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LENS; METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; HALF-LIFE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025861082     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(91)90075-P     Document Type: Article

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