title: Is PQQ a significant nutrient in addition to its role as a therapeutic agent in the higher animal?
abstract: The controversy as to the nutritional status of pyroloquinoline (PQQ) has now been broadened to include various animal tissues by evidence of its vitamin status in mice, a mammalian PQQ reductase, and evidence that this enzyme participates in mechanisms protecting tissues against oxidative stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego 92093.
authors.forename: H N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003067:Coenzymes / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D045542:PQQ Cofactor; D015363:Quinolones / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D003067:Coenzymes; D015363:Quinolones; D045542:PQQ Cofactor; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases