Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Pivot Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
Symptom
Drug
Enzyme
Compound
Target Concepts:
Gene/Protein
Disease
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Drug
Enzyme
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Query: UMLS:C0684249 (
lung carcinoma
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Mice bearing the Lewis
lung carcinoma
showed a high tumour
glutaminase
activity and significantly higher concentrations of most amino acids than in both the liver and the skeletal muscle of the host. Tumour tissue slices showed a marked preference for glutamine, especially for oxidation of its skeleton to CO2. It is proposed that the metabolism of this particular carcinoma is focused on amino acid degradation, glutamine being its preferred substrate.
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PMID:Amino acid metabolism in tumour-bearing mice. 334 22
