Is there a correlation between age and D-aspartic acid in human knee cartilage?

Amino Acids

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-30

  Fisher, G ^a   Lopez, S ^a   Peterson, K ^a   Goff, T ^a   Philip, I ^a   Gaviria, R ^a   Lorenzo, N ^a   Tsesarskaia, M ^a  

^a BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D Asp; D Aspartic acid; Knee cartilage

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN; CARTILAGE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE; LENS; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REGENERATION; TOOTH;

AGING; BRAIN; CARTILAGE; D-ASPARTIC ACID; DENTIN; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33845269115     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-006-0353-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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