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  • Title: [Specificity of tyrosine metabolism depending on the state of melaninogenesis].
    Author: Kurbanov Kh, Berezov TT.
    Journal: Biull Eksp Biol Med; 1975 Aug; 80(8):44-7. PubMed ID: 241442.
    Abstract:
    The excretion of metabolites of tyrosine (p-hydroxypyruvic acid-p-HPA, homogentisinic acid-HGA, total keto acids-TKA) and the activity of tyrosine aminotransferase of the tissues of 36 albino and 36 black rabbits was measured. The initial level of tyrosine metabolites in the urine of black and albino rabbits differed but little from one another. With the introduction of L-tyrosine, the quantity of the excreted p-HPA increased sharply, and of the HGA decreased in the albino rabbits. Among black rabbits an increase of the HGA excretion with a comparatively stable level of the excreted p-HPA was noted. Among all the tissues investigated only in the skin and the liver of albino rabbits there was a sharp increase in the initial tyrosine aminotransferase activity after the feeding of L-tyrosine, which testified to a probable adaptive synthesis of the enzyme. Analysis of the data obtained showed that tyrosine metabolism probably depended on the state of melaninogenesis.
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