Urinary metabolic signatures of human adiposity

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 285, 2015, Pages

  Elliott, Paul ^a   Posma, Joram M ^a,b   Chan, Queenie ^a   Garcia Perez, Isabel ^b   Wijeyesekera, Anisha ^b   Bictash, Magda ^b   Ebbels, Timothy M D ^b   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^c   Zhao, Liancheng ^d   Van Horn, Linda ^e   Daviglus, Martha ^e,f   Stamler, Jeremiah ^e   Holmes, Elaine ^b   Nicholson, Jeremy K ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYISOBUTYRATE; 2 OXOISOCAPROIC ACID; 3 METHYLHISTIDINE; 4 CRESYL SULFATE; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CITRIC ACID; DIMETHYLAMINE; ETHANOLAMINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LEUCINE; N ACETYL NEURAMINATE; PHENYLACETYLGLUTAMINE; SULFATE; TRIMETHYLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; METABOLOME; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINARY METABOLIC SIGNATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; URINE;

ADIPOSITY; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BODY MASS INDEX; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84929492323     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa5680     Document Type: Article

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