Creatine and creatinine metabolism

M Wyss, R Kaddurah-Daouk - Physiological reviews, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
The goal of this review is to present a comprehensive survey of the many intriguing facets of
creatine (Cr) and creatinine metabolism, encompassing the pathways and regulation of Cr …

Skeletal muscle fatigue: cellular mechanisms

DG Allen, GD Lamb, H Westerblad - Physiological reviews, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Repeated, intense use of muscles leads to a decline in performance known as muscle
fatigue. Many muscle properties change during fatigue including the action potential …

The creatine kinase system and pleiotropic effects of creatine

T Wallimann, M Tokarska-Schlattner, U Schlattner - Amino acids, 2011 - Springer
The pleiotropic effects of creatine (Cr) are based mostly on the functions of the enzyme
creatine kinase (CK) and its high-energy product phosphocreatine (PCr). Multidisciplinary …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial creatine kinase in human health and disease

U Schlattner, M Tokarska-Schlattner… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2006 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial creatine kinase (MtCK), together with cytosolic creatine kinase isoenzymes
and the highly diffusible CK reaction product, phosphocreatine, provide a temporal and …

Creatine biosynthesis and transport in health and disease

MJC Curt, PM Voicu, M Fontaine, AF Dessein… - Biochimie, 2015 - Elsevier
Creatine is physiologically provided equally by diet and by endogenous synthesis from
arginine and glycine with successive involvements of arginine glycine amidinotransferase …

Phosphotransfer networks and cellular energetics

PP Dzeja, A Terzic - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
Precise coupling of spatially separated intracellular ATP-producing and ATP-consuming
processes is fundamental to the bioenergetics of living organisms, ensuring a fail-safe …

Thiol-based redox switches in eukaryotic proteins

N Brandes, S Schmitt, U Jakob - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2009 - liebertpub.com
For many years, oxidative thiol modifications in cytosolic proteins were largely disregarded
as in vitro artifacts, and considered unlikely to play significant roles within the reducing …

Role of phosphate and calcium stores in muscle fatigue

DG Allen, H Westerblad - The Journal of physiology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Intensive activity of muscles causes a decline in performance, known as fatigue, that is
thought to be caused by the effects of metabolic changes on either the contractile machinery …

Neuroprotective effects of creatine in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease

RJ Ferrante, OA Andreassen, BG Jenkins… - Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness for which there is no
effective therapy. We examined whether creatine, which may exert neuroprotective effects by …

Neuroprotective effects of creatine and cyclocreatine in animal models of Huntington's disease

RT Matthews, L Yang, BG Jenkins… - Journal of …, 1998 - Soc Neuroscience
The gene defect in Huntington's disease (HD) may result in an impairment of energy
metabolism. Malonate and 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) are inhibitors of succinate …