Plasma free amino acid profiling of five types of cancer patients and its application for early detection.

BACKGROUND: Recently, rapid advances have been made in metabolomics-based, easy-to-use early cancer detection methods using blood samples. Among metabolites, profiling of plasma free amino acids (PFAAs) is a promising approach because PFAAs link all organ systems and have important roles in metaboli...

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Main Authors: Yohei Miyagi, Masahiko Higashiyama, Akira Gochi, Makoto Akaike, Takashi Ishikawa, Takeshi Miura, Nobuhiro Saruki, Etsuro Bando, Hideki Kimura, Fumio Imamura, Masatoshi Moriyama, Ichiro Ikeda, Akihiko Chiba, Fumihiro Oshita, Akira Imaizumi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hiroshi Miyano, Katsuhisa Horimoto, Osamu Tochikubo, Toru Mitsushima, Minoru Yamakado, Naoyuki Okamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3168486?pdf=render