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Evaluation of vanillin as a probe drug for aldehyde oxidase and phenotyping for its activity in a Western Indian Cohort.
Indian journal of pharmacology - 1 Jan 2000
Subash Sandhya, Gogtay Nithya J, Iyer Krishna R, Gandhe Prajakta, Budania Ritu, Thatte Urmila M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Aldehyde oxidase (AO), a molybdoflavoenzyme, is emerging as a key player in drug discovery and metabolism. Despite having several known substrates, there are no validated probes reported for studying the activity of AO in vivo. Vanillin (4-hydroxy 3-methoxy benzaldehyde) is an excellent substrate of AO, in vitro. In the present study, vanillin has been validated as an in vivo probe for AO....
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