The essentiality of sulfur is closely related to nitrogen metabolism: A clue to hyperhomocysteinaemia

Nutrition Research Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-151

  Ingenbleek, Yves ^a   Young, Vernon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homocyst(e)ine; Inflammatory disorders; Methionine; Protein metabolism; Sulfur biology

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; NITROGEN; PHENYLALANINE; PREALBUMIN; SULFUR; SULFUR AMINO ACID; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NITROGEN BALANCE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 12744263134     PISSN: 09544224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/NRR200489     Document Type: Review

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