Sulfur amino acid metabolism and requirements

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 170-175

  Courtney Martin, Glenda ^a   Ball, Ronald O ^b,c   Pencharz, Paul B ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BETAINE; CHOLINE; CREATINE; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHYL GROUP; POLYAMINE; PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERINE; SULFATE; SULFUR; SULFUR AMINO ACID; TAURINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; DESULFURIZATION; EDITORIAL; FEEDING; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS, SULFUR; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; METHIONINE;

EID: 84857493824     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00466.x     Document Type: Editorial

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