The contrasting relationships between betaine and homocysteine in two clinical cohorts are associated with plasma lipids and drug treatments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Urinary betaine excretion positively correlated with plasma homocysteine in outpatients attending a lipid disorders clinic (lipid clinic study). We aimed to confirm this in subjects with established vascular disease.
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Betaine in Cereal Grains and Grain-Based Products
Foods, 2018 Betaine is a non-essential nutrient which performs several important physiological functions in organisms. Abundant data exist to suggest that betaine has a potential for prevention of chronic diseases and that its dietary intake may contribute to ...
Bojana Filipčev +4 more
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Betaine Accumulation and Betaine-Aldehyde Dehydrogenase in Spinach Leaves [PDF]
Plant Physiology, 1981 Spinach leaf discs accumulated betaine when exposed to a mannitol solution of -20 bars. The accumulation was 12 micromoles per gram original fresh weight in a 24-hour period.Betaine-aldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.8) was assayed in various subcellular fractions prepared from spinach leaves, and it was found only in the soluble fraction. This cytosolic
S M, Pan, R A, Moreau, C, Yu, A H, Huang
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Glycine Betaine Fluxes in Lactobacillus plantarum during Osmostasis and Hyper- and Hypo-osmotic Shock [PDF]
, 1996 Bacteria respond to changes in medium osmolarity by varying the concentrations of specific solutes in order to maintain constant turgor. The primary response of Lactobacillus plantarum to an osmotic upshock involves the accumulation of compatible solutes
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Science Translational Medicine, 2021 Maternal betaine supplementation during lactation increases breast milk betaine content with beneficial metabolic effects on mouse offspring. Supplementing mother’s milk Metabolites from the one-carbon metabolism pool are critical nutrients during ...
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Betaine and beet molasses enhance L-lactic acid production by Bacillus coagulans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Lactic acid is an important chemical with various industrial applications, and it can be efficiently produced by fermentation, in which Bacillus coagulans strains present excellent performance. Betaine can promote lactic acid fermentation as an effective
Ke Xu, Ping Xu
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Dysregulated Choline, Methionine, and Aromatic Amino Acid Metabolism in Patients with Wilson Disease: Exploratory Metabolomic Profiling and Implications for Hepatic and Neurologic Phenotypes. [PDF]
, 2019 Wilson disease (WD) is a genetic copper overload condition characterized by hepatic and neuropsychiatric symptoms with a not well-understood pathogenesis.
Czlonkowska, Anna +6 more
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Betaine in ameliorating alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis
European Journal of Nutrition, 2021 Alcohol-associated liver disease (AALD) is one of most common chronic liver diseases. Hepatic steatosis is the earliest stage in AALD pathological spectrum, reversible by alcohol abstinence.
Aisha Rehman, K. Mehta
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Metabolomic profiles are gender, disease and time specific in the interleukin-10 gene-deficient mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease. [PDF]
, 2013 Metabolomic profiling can be used to study disease-induced changes in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in the metabolomic profile of males and females as they developed IBD.
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Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2012 Background Since betaine is an osmolyte and methyl donor, and abnormal betaine loss is common in diabetes mellitus (>20% patients), we investigated the relationship between betaine and the post-methionine load rise in homocysteine, in diabetes and ...
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