Polyamines and their metabolites as diagnostic markers of human diseases

Biomolecules and Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Park, Myung Hee ^a   Igarashi, Kazuei ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrolein; Cancer; Diacetylspemine; Diagnostic marker; Polyamine metabolites; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACETYLPOLYAMINE OXIDASE; ACROLEIN DERIVATIVE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CA 15-3 ANTIGEN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DIACETYLSPERMIDINE; DIACETYLSPERMINE; EFLORNITHINE; MITOGUAZONE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYAMINE; PROTEIN CONJUGATED ACROLEIN; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMIDINE SPERMINE N1 ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SPERMINE; SPERMINE OXIDASE; SULINDAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AGING; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLON CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKEMIA; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; POLYAMINE URINE LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT CANCER; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNYDER ROBINSON SYNDROME; URINE LEVEL; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 84873392592     PISSN: 19769148     EISSN: 20054483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4062/biomolther.2012.097     Document Type: Review

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