Increased Urinary Excretion of Formiminoglutamic Acid in Nitrous‐Oxide‐Treated Rats and Its Reduction by Methionine
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 129 (3) , 627-628
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1983.tb07095.x
Abstract
Inhalation of nitrous oxide oxidises cob(I)alamin and inactivates methionine synthetase of which cobalamin is a co‐enzyme. The biochemical changes in the rat following exposure to nitrous oxide resemble in some detail the changes present in patients with untreated pernicious anemia due to deficiency of cobalamin. There is a marked increase in the excretion of formiminoglutamic acid in the urine following exposure to nitrous oxide. A significant decrease is produced, while on N2O, by giving methionine. The explanation for these findings is discussed in the light of recent data on the effects of cobalamin inactivation.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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