IS PQQ A SIGNIFICANT NUTRIENT IN ADDITION TO ITS ROLE AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT IN THE HIGHER ANIMAL

Authors
CHRISTENSEN HN
Citation
Hn. Christensen, IS PQQ A SIGNIFICANT NUTRIENT IN ADDITION TO ITS ROLE AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT IN THE HIGHER ANIMAL, Nutrition reviews, 52(1), 1994, pp. 24-25
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Nutrition & Dietetics
Journal title
Nutrition reviews → ACNP
ISSN journal
00296643
Volume
52
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
24 - 25
Database
ISI
SICI code
0029-6643(1994)52:1<24:IPASNI>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The controversy as to the nutritional status of pyrroloquinoline (PQQ) has now been broadened to include various animal tissues by evidence of its vitamin status in mice, a mammalian PQQ reductase, and evidence that this enzyme participates in mechanisms protecting tissues agains t oxidative stress.