Effect of hydrazine upon vitamin B12-dependent methionine synthase activity and the sulphur amino acid pathway in isolated rat hepatocytes

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1311-1319

  Kenyon, Susan H ^a   Waterfield, Catherine J ^b   Asker, Daniel S ^b   Kudo, Mariko ^a   Moss, David W ^c   Bates, Timothy E ^c   Nicolaou, Anna ^d   Gibbons, William A ^a   Timbrell, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Homocysteine; Hydrazine; Methionine synthase; Nitric oxide synthase; Sulphur amino acids; Taurine

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDRAZINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SULFUR AMINO ACID; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACIDS, SULFUR; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTEINE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDRAZINES; LIVER; MALE; NITROARGININE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 0033151519     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(99)00032-5     Document Type: Article

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