Is PQQ a significant nutrient in addition to its role as a therapeutic agent in the higher animal?
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.
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Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Diego 92093.
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*
D003067:Coenzymes; D015363:Quinolones; D045542:PQQ Cofactor; D009247:NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases