Suppressed expression of the urea cycle enzyme genes in the liver of carnitine-deficient juvenile visceral steatosis (JVS) mice in infancy and during starvation in adulthood

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 172-177

  Tomomura, Mineko ^a   Tomomura, Akito ^a   Musa, Dewan Abdullah Abu ^a   Horiuchi, Masahisa ^a   Takiguchi, Masaki ^b   Mori, Masataka ^b   Saheki, Takeyori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carnitine deficiency; Gene expression; Starvation; Transcription factor; Urea cycle enzymes

Indexed keywords

ARGININOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; LIVER ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY LIVER; GENE REPRESSION; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STARVATION; STEATOSIS; UREA CYCLE;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 0031025748     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021562     Document Type: Article

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