Inter- and intra-individual variations in normal urinary glycine betaine excretion

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 447-453

  Lever, Michael ^a   Atkinson, Wendy ^a   Sizeland, Peter C B ^a   Chambers, Stephen T ^a   George, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological methylations; Diabetes; Glycine betaine; Homocysteine; Osmoregulation; Plasma betaine; Sorbitol; Urine betaine; Vascular disease

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; CREATININE; SORBITOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETAINE URINE LEVEL; BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME; WATER LOADING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BETAINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CREATININE; HUMANS; MALE; SORBITOL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947600187     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2006.10.029     Document Type: Article

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