Hepatic Phosphatidylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase Expression Is Increased in Diabetic Rats
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Expression of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase in Yoshida ascites hepatoma cells and the livers of host rats.
Previous studies have implicated phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase-2 (PEMT2) in the regulation of non-neoplastic liver growth [Tessitore,L., Cui,Z. and Vance,E. (1997) Biochem. J., 322, 151-154]. We have now investigated whether or not PEMT2 is also involved in the control of proliferation of hepatoma cells growing in an animal and cell death by apoptosis in the liver of tumor-bearin...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.12.3005