Increased δ aminolevulinic acid and decreased pineal melatonin production: A common event in acute porphyria studies in the rat

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 104-110

  Puy, Hervé ^a   Deybach, Jean Charles ^a   Bogdan, André ^b   Callebert, Jacques ^c   Baumgartner, Matthias ^d   Voisin, Pierre ^e   Nordmann, Yves ^a   Touitou, Yvan ^b  

^a HÔPITAL LOUIS MOURIER   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e Lab de Physiologie Cellulaire   (France)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Porphyria; Tryptophan; aminobutyric acid; aminolevulinic acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; MELATONIN; SEROTONIN; SUCCINYLACETONE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; PORPHYRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030051891     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118376     Document Type: Article

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