Ovarian cyst fluid of serous ovarian tumors contains large quantities of the brain amino acid N-acetylaspartate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kolwijck, Eva ^a   Wevers, Ron A ^a   Engelke, Udo F ^a   Woudenberg, Jannes ^a   Bulten, Johan ^a   Blom, Henk J ^b   Massuger, Leon F A G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BRAIN PROTEIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N-ACETYLASPARTATE; TUMOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYST FLUID; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UTERINE TUBE; CHEMISTRY; EPITHELIUM CELL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ASPARTIC ACID; CYST FLUID; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN CYSTS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956402737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010293     Document Type: Article

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