GABA, a non-protein amino acid ubiquitous in food matrices

R Ramos-Ruiz, E Poirot… - Cogent Food & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
GABA has attracted great attention over the last several decades due to its ubiquity in life. It
is an important molecule naturally present in considerable amounts in many feed and food …

Germinated grains–Sources of bioactive compounds

ON Donkor, L Stojanovska, P Ginn, J Ashton… - Food chemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Germination of seven selected commercially important grains was studied to establish its
effects on the nutritional and chemical composition. The changes in the concentration of the …

Measurement of neurotransmitters from extracellular fluid in brain by in vivo microdialysis and chromatography–mass spectrometry

MY Zhang, CE Beyer - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 2006 - Elsevier
During the last three decades, a great deal of information has been discovered about
chemical neurotransmission. However, the most important processes, namely the complex …

Effect of microbial fermentation on content of statin, GABA, and polyphenols in Pu-Erh tea

KC Jeng, CS Chen, YP Fang, RCW Hou… - Journal of agricultural …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Besides cancer prevention, the hypolipidemic effects of tea have been well studied in
animals and humans. Recently, statin has been identified in Pu-erh tea extract. Clinical trials …

Comparative effects of drought, salt, heavy metal and heat stresses on gamma-aminobutryric acid levels of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)

M Bor, B Seckin, R Ozgur, O Yılmaz, F Ozdemir… - Acta Physiologiae …, 2009 - Springer
Gamma-aminobutryric acid (GABA) accumulation in response to diverse stresses is well
known in plants; however, the comparative effects of different environmental stresses on …

Simple and sensitive liquid chromatographic method with fluorimetric detection for the analysis of γ-amino-n-butyric acid in human urine

CY Hsieh, EM Tsai, HL Wu - Analytica chimica acta, 2006 - Elsevier
A simple and sensitive liquid chromatographic method is described for the analysis of γ-
amino-n-butyric acid (GABA) in human urine. GABA is increased in the urine of cancer …

Over-expression of a tomato N-acetyl-L-glutamate synthase gene (SlNAGS1) in Arabidopsis thaliana results in high ornithine levels and increased tolerance in salt …

MS Kalamaki, D Alexandrou, D Lazari… - Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
A single copy of the N-acetyl-l-glutamate synthase gene (SlNAGS1) has been isolated from
tomato. The deduced amino acid sequence consists of 604 amino acids and shows a high …

Isoflavone, γ-aminobutyric acid contents and antioxidant activities are significantly increased during germination of three Chinese soybean cultivars

F Wang, H Wang, D Wang, F Fang, J Lai, T Wu… - Journal of Functional …, 2015 - Elsevier
The changes in isoflavone and γ-aminobutyric (GABA) contents and antioxidant activity of
germinated soybean seeds were investigated. Three Chinese soybean cultivars (ZH 13, 30 …

Comparison of gamma-aminobutyric acid production in Thai rice grains

P Jannoey, H Niamsup, S Lumyong, T Suzuki… - World Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) has many pharmacological functions including being a
major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Two comparative methods for GABA production in rice …

A novel colorimetric method for detection of gamma-aminobutyric acid based on silver nanoparticles

A Jinnarak, S Teerasong - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2016 - Elsevier
A novel, simple and rapid colorimetric method for determination of gamma-aminobutyric acid
(GABA) was developed using a negatively charged citrate-capped silver nanoparticle …