Erythrocyte Transaminase Activity
- 1 May 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 21 (5) , 502-507
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/21.5.502
Abstract
Estimation of erythrocyte transaminase activity in 134 subjects aged 18–94 years shows a negative correlation of glutamic-pyruvic transaminase with age due to a reduction of both coenzyme and apoenzyme in older subjects. Dietary supplementation with pyridoxine hydrochloride results in a considerable increase of both glutamic-pyruvic and glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase activity in older subjects.Keywords
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