Kynurenine Aminotransferases in the Rat: Localization and Characterization

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 398, Issue , 1996, Pages 455-464

  Okuno, E ^a   Nishikawa, T ^a   Nakamura, M ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; 3-HYDROXYKYNURENINE; AMINO ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAMINE - PHENYLPYRUVATE TRANSAMINASE; GLUTAMINE PHENYLPYRUVATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMINE PYRUVATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMINE-PYRUVATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; KYNURENINE; KYNURENINE OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE; KYNURENINE-OXOGLUTARATE TRANSAMINASE; LYASE; OXOACID;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; GLUTAMINE; KETO ACIDS; KIDNEY; KINETICS; KYNURENINE; LYASES; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 0030334140     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_71     Document Type: Article

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