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Original Article

Elevated Concentrations of Kynurenic Acid, a Tryptophan Derivative, in Dense Nuclear Cataracts

Tomasz Żarnowski Tadeusz Krwawicz Chair of Ophthalmology and 1st Eye Hospital, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Robert Rejdak Tadeusz Krwawicz Chair of Ophthalmology and 1st Eye Hospital, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland; Department of Pathophysiology of Vision and Neuro-Ophthalomology, University Eye Hospital, Tübingen, Germany; Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Elżbieta Zielińska-Rzecka Department of Toxicology, Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Lublin, Poland
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Eberhart Zrenner Department of Pathophysiology of Vision and Neuro-Ophthalomology, University Eye Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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Paweł Grieb Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Zbigniew Zagórski Tadeusz Krwawicz Chair of Ophthalmology and 1st Eye Hospital, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Anselm Junemann Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Waldemar A. Turski Department of Toxicology, Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Lublin, Poland; Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Pages 27-32 | Received 27 Aug 2006, Accepted 29 Oct 2006, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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Praveen Kumar Munipally, Satish G. Agraharm, Vijay Kumar Valavala, Sridhar Gundae & Naga Raju Turlapati. (2011) Evaluation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression and kynurenine pathway metabolites levels in serum samples of diabetic retinopathy patients. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry 117:5, pages 254-258.
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Olga B. Morozova, Yuliya S. Zhuravleva, Maksim P. Geniman, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya & Peter S. Sherin. (2023) Disproportionation and dimerisation of kynurenic acid under UV light. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 445, pages 115009.
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Siqiang Jia, Jianpeng Li, Bin Yu, Mengjie Li & Bo Cui. (2023) Improvement of myocardial injury and gut microbiota disturbance in type 2 diabetic mice by inulin with various degrees of polymerization. Food Bioscience 51, pages 102318.
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Kamila Kozieł & Ewa M. Urbanska. (2023) Kynurenine Pathway in Diabetes Mellitus—Novel Pharmacological Target?. Cells 12:3, pages 460.
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Tamera D. Hughes, Osman F. Güner, Emma Carine Iradukunda, Robert S. Phillips & J. Phillip Bowen. (2022) The Kynurenine Pathway and Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase Inhibitors. Molecules 27:1, pages 273.
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Yuliya S. Zhuravleva, Olga B. Morozova, Yuri P. Tsentalovich & Peter S. Sherin. (2020) Proton-coupled electron transfer as the mechanism of reaction between triplet state of kynurenic acid and tryptophan. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 396, pages 112522.
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Yuliya S. Zhuravleva & Yuri P. Tsentalovich. (2018) Acid-alkaline properties of triplet state and radical of kynurenic acid. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 365, pages 7-12.
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Ekaterina D. Sormacheva, Peter S. Sherin & Yuri P. Tsentalovich. (2017) Dimerization and oxidation of tryptophan in UV-A photolysis sensitized by kynurenic acid. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 113, pages 372-384.
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Ekaterina A. Zelentsova, Lyudmila V. Yanshole, Anjella Zh. Fursova & Yuri P. Tsentalovich. (2017) Optical properties of the human lens constituents. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 173, pages 318-324.
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P. S. Sherin, E. A. Zelentsova, E. D. Sormacheva, V. V. Yanshole, T. G. Duzhak & Yu. P. Tsentalovich. (2016) Aggregation of α-crystallins in kynurenic acid-sensitized UVA photolysis under anaerobic conditions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18:13, pages 8827-8839.
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Ugur Unluturk & Tomris Erbas. 2015. Tryptophan Metabolism: Implications for Biological Processes, Health and Disease. Tryptophan Metabolism: Implications for Biological Processes, Health and Disease 147 171 .
Iwona Chmiel-Perzyńska, Adam Perzyński & Ewa M. Urbańska. (2014) Experimental diabetes mellitus type 1 increases hippocampal content of kynurenic acid in rats. Pharmacological Reports 66:6, pages 1134-1139.
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Robert Rejdak, Agnieszka Oleszczuk, Carmen Rummelt, Waldemar A. Turski, Tomasz Choragiewicz, Katarzyna Nowomiejska, Katarzyna Ksiazek, Sebastian Thaler, Tomasz Zarnowski, Etsuo Okuno, Pawel Grieb, Eberhart Zrenner, Friedrich Kruse & Anselm G. M. Junemann. (2013) Presence and distribution of l-kynurenine aminotransferases immunoreactivity in human cataractous lenses. Acta Ophthalmologica 91:6, pages e450-e455.
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Yong CHENG, Xuan SHI, Xiao-guang CAO, Xiao-xin LI & Yong-zhen BAO. (2013) Correlation between contrast sensitivity and the lens opacities classification system III in age-related nuclear and cortical cataracts. Chinese Medical Journal 126:8, pages 1430-1435.
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Ekaterina A. Zelentsova, Peter S. Sherin, Olga A. Snytnikova, Robert Kaptein, Eric Vauthey & Yuri P. Tsentalovich. (2013) Photochemistry of aqueous solutions of kynurenic acid and kynurenine yellow. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 12:3, pages 546-558.
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