Vitamin B-6 restriction tends to reduce the red blood cell glutathione synthesis rate without affecting red blood cell or plasma glutathione concentrations in healthy men and women

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-343

  Lamers, Yvonne ^a   O'Rourke, Bruce ^b   Gilbert, Lesa R ^c   Keeling, Christine ^c   Matthews, Dwight E ^b   Stacpoole, Peter W ^c   Gregory III, Jesse F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINYLGLYCINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; CARBON; DEUTERIUM;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY;

RATTUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEUTERIUM; DIET; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VITAMIN B 6; VITAMIN B 6 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67949108094     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27747     Document Type: Article

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