Creatine synthesis is a major metabolic process in neonatal piglets and has important implications for amino acid metabolism and methyl balance

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1292-1297

  Brosnan, John T ^a   Wijekoon, Enoka P ^a   Warford Woolgar, Lori ^a   Trottier, Nathalie L ^b   Brosnan, Margaret E ^a   Brunton, Janet A ^a   Bertolo, Robert F P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ARGININE; BETAINE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE AMIDINOTRANSFERASE; GUANIDINOACETATE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; METHYL GROUP; ORNITHINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; 5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2);

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KIDNEY; METHYLATION; MILK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PIGLET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BODY WEIGHT; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; SWINE;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE; BETAINE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; BODY WEIGHT; CREATINE; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); ORGAN SIZE; SWINE;

EID: 67649995770     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.105411     Document Type: Article

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