Homoarginine, arginine, and relatives: analysis, metabolism, transport, physiology, and pathology

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1697-1702

  Tsikas, Dimitrios ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adulthood; AGAT; Biomarker; Childhood; Disease; Health

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; HOMOARGININE; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOMOARGININE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; STROKE;

EID: 84940721445     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-2055-5     Document Type: Article

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