Plasma and urine betaine and dimethylglycine variation in healthy young male subjects

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 706-712

  Lever, Michael ^a,b   Atkinson, Wendy ^a   Slow, Sandy ^a   Chambers, Stephen T ^b   George, Peter M ^a,b  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological variation; Dimethylglycine; Glycine betaine; Individuality; Urine betaine

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; DIMETHYLGLYCINE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADULT; BETAINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SARCOSINE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63649096469     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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