Acylcarnitines are fatty acid metabolites that play important roles in many cellular energy
metabolism pathways. They have historically been used as important diagnostic markers for …

Betaine is known as trimethylglycine and is widely distributed in animals, plants, and
microorganisms. Betaine is known to function physiologically as an important …

Betaine is distributed widely in animals, plants, and microorganisms, and rich dietary
sources include seafood, especially marine invertebrates (≈ 1%); wheat germ or bran (≈ …

Betaine is an essential osmolyte and source of methyl groups and comes from either the diet
or by the oxidation of choline. Its metabolism methylates homocysteine to methionine, also …

Background Betaine is a major osmolyte, also important in methyl group metabolism.
Concentrations of betaine, its metabolite dimethylglycine and analog trimethylamine-N …

Betaine serves as a methyl donor in a reaction converting homocysteine to methionine,
catalysed by the enzyme betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase. It has been used for …

In this study we have surveyed the betaine content of a wide range of foods commonly found
in the western diet. Glycine betaine, proline betaine (stachydrine), trigonelline and …

Stachydrine is extracted from the leaves of Leonurus japonicus Houtt (or Motherwort,“Yi Mu
Cao” in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and is the major bioactive ingredient. So far …

This work describes an exploratory NMR metabonomic study of second trimester maternal
urine and plasma, in an attempt to characterize the metabolic changes underlying prenatal …

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most challenging health concerns of the 21st century. With at
least 30% of the diabetic population remaining undiagnosed, effective and early diagnosis is …