Agmatine is efficiently transported by non-neuronal monoamine transporters extraneuronal monoamine transporter (EMT) and organic cation transporter 2 (OCT2)

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 810-817

  Gründemann, Dirk ^a   Hahne, Christian ^a   Berkels, Reinhard ^a   Schömig, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYL 4 PHENYLPYRIDINIUM; AGMATINE; ANTIZYME; ART 279; ART 608; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYANINE DYE; EXTRANEURONAL MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; PUTRESCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TRANSPORT; EMBRYO; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIMULATION; SURFACE CHARGE;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER 1; RATS;

EID: 0037309520     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.102.044404     Document Type: Article

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