CIDeRplusGeneral Information:
| Id: | 8,638 (click here to show other Interactions for entry) |
| Diseases: |
Cancer
Diabetes mellitus, type II - [OMIM] Insulin resistance |
| Mammalia | |
| review | |
| Reference: | Bi X and Henry CJ(2017) Plasma-free amino acid profiles are predictors of cancer and diabetes development Nutr Diabetes 7: e249 [PMID: 28287627] |
Interaction Information:
| Comment | Cancer cells require certain amino acids, for example, glutamine (Gln), Gly, aspartic acid (Asp) and serine (Ser), for DNA synthesis, building new blood vessels, and duplicating their entire protein contents. They also require amino acids for proteins synthesis. |
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Formal Description Interaction-ID: 89719 |
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