Growth promotion by homocysteine but not by homocysteic acid: a role for excessive growth in homocystinuria or proliferation in hyperhomocysteinemia?

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1407, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Fritzer Szekeres, M ^a   Blom, H J ^b   Boers, G H J ^b   Szekeres, Th ^a   Lubec, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyclin dependent kinase; Growth; Homocysteic acid; Homocysteine; Homocystinuria

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIVISION; CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031683920     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4439(98)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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