Free amino acids reflect impact of selenite-dependent stress on primary metabolism in rat lens

Current Eye Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 997-1005

  Mitton, Kenneth P ^a   Hess, John L ^b   Bunce, G Edwin ^b  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Glutathione; Lens; Oxidative stress; Pentose pathway; Rat; Selenite

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CARBON 14; CYCLOLEUCINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GLYCINE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; PROLINE; SELENITE; SERINE; SODIUM SELENITE; TAURINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; LENS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATARACT; CYCLOLEUCINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM SELENITE;

EID: 0030792805     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.16.10.997.9016     Document Type: Article

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