Hepatic uptake of γ-butyrobetaine, a precursor of carnitine biosynthesis, in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fujita, Masaharu ^a   Nakanishi, Takeo ^a   Shibue, Yuta ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^b   Moseley, Richard H ^c   Shirasaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tamai, Ikumi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

butyrobetaine; Carnitine; GABA transporter; Hepatocytes; Liver; Octn2; Transporter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; CARNITINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; GAMMA BUTYROBETAINE; MICRORNA; PROTEIN SLC22A5; PROTEIN SLC6A13; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETAINE; GAMMA-BUTYROBETAINE; GAT2 PROTEIN, RAT; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; SLC22A5 PROTEIN, RAT; SODIUM;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BETAINE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARNITINE; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIVER; MALE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA INTERFERENCE; SODIUM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 70349750212     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00238.2009     Document Type: Article

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