Transthyretin (prealbumin) in health and disease: Nutritional implications

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue , 1994, Pages 495-533

  Ingenbleek, Yves ^a   Young, Vernon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute and chronic stressful conditions; amyloidosis; conformation; metabolism; nutritional status

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; RETINOL; THYROID HORMONE;

CALORIC INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0027998527     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nu.14.070194.002431     Document Type: Review

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