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Regulation of ornithine decarboxylase activity and polyamine transport by agmatine in rat pulmonary artery endothelial cells.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Feb 2001
Babál P, Ruchko M, Campbell C C, Gilmour S P, Mitchell J L, Olson J W, Gillespie M N
Abstract excerpt
Agmatine, a product of arginine decarboxylation in mammalian cells, is believed to govern cell polyamines by inducing antizyme, which in turn suppresses ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and polyamine uptake. However, since agmatine is structurally similar to the polyamines, it is possible that it exerts antizyme-independent actions on polyamine regulatory pathways. The present study determined whether...
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