Betaine decreases hyperhomocysteinemia, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and liver injury in alcohol-fed mice

Gastroenterology

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1488-1499

  Ji, Cheng ^a   Kaplowitz, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CASPASE; CASPASE 12; CD14 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 94; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 153; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037960128     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(03)00276-2     Document Type: Article

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