Serum phenylalanine concentrations in patients with ovarian carcinoma correlate with concentrations of immune activation markers and of isoprostane-8

Cancer Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-147

  Neurauter, Gabriele ^a   Grahmann, Anna V ^a   Klieber, Martin ^a   Zeimet, Alain ^a   Ledochowski, Maximilian ^b   Sperner Unterweger, Barbara ^a   Fuchs, Dietmar ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immune activation; Oxidative stress; Phenylalanine; Phenylalanine hydroxylase; Tyrosine

Indexed keywords

ISOPROSTANE 8; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; NEOPTERIN; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; OVARY CARCINOMA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ISOPROSTANES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPTERIN; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENYLALANINE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II; SEPSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TYROSINE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53949089621     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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