.... homocysteine, AdoMet ( S -adenosylmethionine), AdoHcy ( S -adenosylhomocysteine), serine and glycine. Primed, continuous infusions with [ 2 H 3 -methyl-1- 13 C]methionine were used to determine flux rates of methionine transmethylation, homocysteine remethylation and homocysteine trans-sulphuration. Metabolic...

...Rita A. Klim; Marta Albajar; Reginald Hems; Dermot H. Williamson 1. The effects of chronic uraemia on glucose production and nitrogen release (urea plus ammonia formation) from alanine, glutamine or serine in isolated rat hepatocytes were studied. 2. Uraemia increased the rate of formation of urea...