Moderate vitamin B-6 restriction does not alter postprandial methionine cycle rates of remethylation, transmethylation, and total transsulfuration but increases the fractional synthesis rate of cystathionine in healthy young men and women

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 835-842

  Lamers, Yvonne ^a,d   Coats, Bonnie ^b   Ralat, Maria ^a   Quinlivan, Eoin P ^c   Stacpoole, Peter W ^b   Gregory, Jesse F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; SERINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON METABOLISM; DIET RESTRICTION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SULFURATION; TRANSMETHYLATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BREATH TESTS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CYSTATHIONINE; DEUTERIUM; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LEUCINE; MALE; METHIONINE; METHYLATION; MONOCYTES; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VITAMIN B 6; VITAMIN B 6 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955506454     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.134197     Document Type: Article

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