Ray Peat: Meat physiology, stress, and degenerative physiology

Ornithine decarboxylase, hypotonicity, and polyamines

1. [Ornithine decarboxylase and malignant growth]Biull Eksp Biol Med · 1993 · PMID 8374136
2. Prognostic value of ornithine decarboxylase and polyamines in human breast cancer: correlation with clinicopathologic parametersClin Cancer Res · 1999 · PMID 10473083
3. Activation of thyroid ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) in vitro by hypotonicity; a possible mechanism for ODC inductionBiochem Biophys Res Commun · 1977 · PMID 196601
4. Regulation of mammalian ornithine decarboxylase. Studies on the induction of the enzyme by hypotonic stressEur J Biochem · 1995 · PMID 7628482
5. Osmotic stress induces variation in cellular levels of ornithine decarboxylase-antizymeBiochem J · 1998 · PMID 9445370
6. Blood-brain barrier breakdown in cold-injured brain is linked to a biphasic stimulation of ornithine decarboxylase activity and polyamine synthesis: both are coordinately inhibited by verapamil, dexamethasone, and aspirinJ Neurochem · 1989 · PMID 2491756
7. Local anesthetics inhibit induction of ornithine decarboxylase by the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetateProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 1980 · PMID 6933562
8. Pronounced reduction in adenoma recurrence associated with aspirin use and a polymorphism in the ornithine decarboxylase geneProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2003 · PMID 12810952
9. Mitogenic induction of ornithine decarboxylase in human mononuclear leukocytes: relationships with adenosine diphosphate ribosyltransferaseInt J Biochem · 1990 · PMID 2139420

Polyamines in cancer, urine, and blood

1. [The diagnostic value of erythrocyte polyamines (EPA) in prostatic adenocarcinoma (PA): apropos of 100 patients]Prog Urol · 1992 · PMID 1284385
2. Evaluation of the significance of polyamines and their oxidases in the aetiology of human cervical carcinomaBr J Cancer · 1995 · PMID 7577467
3. Seminal polyamines as agents of cervical carcinoma: production of aneuploidy in squamous epitheliumJ Clin Pathol · 1991 · PMID 2045500
4. Determination of polyamines in urine of normal human and cancer patients by capillary gas chromatographyBiomed Chromatogr · 1990 · PMID 2350602
5. Altered urinary profiles of polyamines and endogenous steroids in patients with benign cervical disease and cervical cancerCancer Lett · 2003 · PMID 14607325
6. Red blood cell polyamines, anaemia and tumour growth in the ratEur J Cancer · 1996 · PMID 8664048
7. Polyamine deprivation: a new tool in cancer treatmentAnticancer Res · 1994 · PMID 8017845
8. Polyamines and prostatic cancerBiochem Soc Trans · 2003 · PMID 12653642
9. [Urine diacetylspermine as a novel tumor marker for pancreatobiliary carcinomas]Rinsho Byori · 2004 · PMID 15164602
10. [Biological markers of precancer of the large intestine]Arkh Patol · 1995 · PMID 8526767
11. Polyamine depletion in human melanoma cells leads to G1 arrest associated with induction of p21WAF1/CIP1/SDI1, changes in the expression of p21-regulated genes, and a senescence-like phenotypeCancer Res · 2001 · PMID 11691789
12. Enhancement of the antiproliferative activity of human interferon by polyamine depletionCancer Treat Rep · 1985 · PMID 3917854
13. Role of polyamines in the function of nuclear transcription factor NF-kappaB in breast cancer cellsExp Oncol · 2004 · PMID 15494691
14. Activation of cyclin D1 by estradiol and spermine in MCF-7 breast cancer cells: a mechanism involving the p38 MAP kinase and phosphorylation of ATF-2Oncol Res · 2005 · PMID 16050133

Putrescine, cadaverine, aging meat, and saliva

1. Time profile of putrescine, cadaverine, indole and skatole in human salivaArch Oral Biol · 2003 · PMID 12663078
2. Cadaverine as a putative component of oral malodorJ Dent Res · 1994 · PMID 8046106
3. OCCURRENCE OF POLYAMINES IN THE GERMS OF CEREALSArch Biochem Biophys · 1964 · PMID 14165499
4. Increase in putrescine, amine oxidase, and acrolein in plasma of renal failure patientsBiochem Biophys Res Commun · 2003 · PMID 12732208
5. Dietary polyamines promote the growth of azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci in rat colonCarcinogenesis · 1997 · PMID 9363993

Stress meat, water, PUFA, and estrogenized animals

1. Preslaughter stress and muscle energy largely determine pork quality at two commercial processing plantsJ Anim Sci · 2004 · PMID 15144080
2. Water-holding capacity in chicken breast muscle is enhanced by pyruvate and reduced by creatine supplementsPoult Sci · 2004 · PMID 15049492
3. Effects of ground flaxseed in swine diets on pig performance and on physical and sensory characteristics and omega-3 fatty acid content of pork: I. Dietary level of flaxseedJ Anim Sci · 1995 · PMID 7592082
4. Effects of ground flaxseed in swine diets on pig performance and on physical and sensory characteristics and omega-3 fatty acid content of pork: II. Duration of 15% dietary flaxseedJ Anim Sci · 1995 · PMID 7592083
5. The effect of androgen and estrogen on food intake and body weight in rats--age dependencyEndokrinologie · 1982 · PMID 7166161 · cited in Fatigue, aging, and recuperation
6. Studies on the mechanism of the catabolic action of estrogensRev Can Biol · 1959 · PMID 13646238 · cited in Fatigue, aging, and recuperation
7. Hyperestrogenemia in neuromuscular diseasesJ Neurol Sci · 1989 · PMID 2926448 · cited in Calcium and Disease: Hypertension, organ calcification, & shock, vs. respiratory energy
8. [Hyperestrogenemia in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)]Rinsho Shinkeigaku · 1985 · PMID 4053465
9. [Studies on relationship between progressive muscular dystrophy and estrogen]Kumamoto Igakkai Zasshi · 1969 · PMID 5395315
10. Metabolic effects of human growth hormone and of estrogens in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophyJ Clin Invest · 1972 · PMID 5057128

Brain, excitotoxicity, methionine, and autointoxication

1. Intestinal autointoxication: a medical leitmotifJ Clin Gastroenterol · 1989 · PMID 2668399
2. Promotion of intestinal carcinogenesis by dietary methionineCarcinogenesis · 1999 · PMID 10190567
3. Nitric oxide synthase inhibition promotes carcinogen-induced preneoplastic changes in the colon of ratsNitric Oxide · 2000 · PMID 11139366
4. Increased red blood cell polyamines in ALS and Parkinson's diseaseExp Neurol · 2002 · PMID 12429196
5. Increase of the ornithine decarboxylase/polyamine system and transglutaminase upregulation in the spinal cord of aged ratsNeurosci Lett · 2001 · PMID 11489547
6. Role of spermine in amyloid beta-peptide-associated free radical-induced neurotoxicityJ Neurosci Res · 2001 · PMID 11223914
7. Targeting alzheimer amyloid plaques in vivoNat Biotechnol · 2000 · PMID 10932157
8. Estrogen enhances depolarization-induced glutamate release through activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase in cultured hippocampal neuronsMol Endocrinol · 2003 · PMID 12554763
9. Role of cerebral spermidine in the development of sensitization to convulsant activity of cocaine and lidocaineBrain Res · 1997 · PMID 9439844
10. Nitric oxide inhibits polyamine-induced apoptosis in the human extravillous trophoblast cell line SGHPL-4Hum Reprod · 2003 · PMID 12721169
11. Urinary excretion of polyamines in the adult respiratory distress syndromeExp Lung Res · 1995 · PMID 7774529
12. Vitreous polyamines spermidine, putrescine, and spermine in human proliferative disorders of the retinaBr J Ophthalmol · 2003 · PMID 12881351
13. Polyamines preferentially interact with bent adenine tracts in double-stranded DNANucleic Acids Res · 2005 · PMID 15788751

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2. Whole body distribution of the quaternary ammonium compound thiazinamium (N-methylpromethazine) and promethazine in monkey and miceArzneimittelforschung · 1983 · PMID 6133524
3. Biochemical markers in colorectal cancer: diagnostic and therapeutic implicationsGastroenterol Clin North Am · 1988 · PMID 3068151
4. Cellular pathways leading to melanoma differentiation: therapeutic implicationsMelanoma Res · 1994 · PMID 7950357