L-Homoserine: a novel excreted metabolic marker of hepatitis B abnormally produced in liver from methionine.

Abstract:

:The hepatitis B infection leads to various profound pathological processes in liver metabolism. Some biochemical alterations detectable by blood analysis are currently used for a preliminary evaluation of the infection. Based on existing data we present here evidence that non-protein amino acid L-homoserine is a pathological, hepatitis B-induced metabolite that is formed and excreted into urine from methionine via splitting S-adenosylmethionine. The urine L-homoserine is proposed as a new marker in the pre-diagnosis examinations that is easier for the clinical analysis than currently used blood test, and is applicable to large-scale epidemiological surveys of the probability of hepatitis B.

journal_name

Med Hypotheses

journal_title

Medical hypotheses

authors

Gazarian KG,Gening LV,Gazarian TG

doi

10.1054/mehy.2001.1527

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-04-01 00:00:00

pages

279-83

issue

4

eissn

0306-9877

issn

1532-2777

pii

S0306987701915270

journal_volume

58

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