The regulation of sulphurated amino acid junctions: Fact or fiction in the field of inflammation?

Amino Acids

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-365

  Santangelo, Francesco ^a  

^a Zambon Group SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute Phase Reaction; Cysteine; Glutathione; Metabolism; N Acetylcysteine; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ALBUMIN; AMRINONE; CYSTEINE; CYTOKINE; GLUTATHIONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHIONINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; SULFATE; SULFUR AMINO ACID; TAURINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; AMINO ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; BLEOMYCIN; PROTEIN; SULFUR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; NITROGEN BALANCE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; DIET; LUNG LAVAGE; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; BRAIN; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DIET; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; PROTEINS; SULFUR;

EID: 0036449353     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-002-0206-y     Document Type: Review

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