Regulatory mechanisms underlying agmatine homeostasis in humans

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Haenisch, Britta ^a   Von Kügelgen, Ivar ^a   Bönisch, Heinz ^a   Göthert, Manfred ^a   Sauerbruch, Tilman ^b   Schepke, Michael ^b   Marklein, Günter ^a   Höfling, Katja ^a   Schröder, Detlev ^c   Molderings, Gerhard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c Evangelische Kliniken Bonn   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arginine decarboxylase; Colon cancer; Hepatic agmatine uptake; Intestinal bacterial microflora; Liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; AMINE OXIDASE (COPPER CONTAINING); ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGMATINE; BACTERIA; COLON; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 57349162147     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.90374.2008     Document Type: Article

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