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. 1980 Jul 15;190(1):225–228. doi: 10.1042/bj1900225

Quantitative importance of non-skeletal-muscle sources of N tau-methylhistidine in urine.

D J Millward, P C Bates, G K Grimble, J G Brown, M Nathan, M J Rennie
PMCID: PMC1162081  PMID: 7447932

Abstract

Direct measurement of N tau-methylhistidine turnover in skeletal muscle, skin and gastrointestinal muscle indicates that these three tissues contribute only 24.9, 6.8 and 9.8% of the total urinary excretion. Measurement of the decay rate of radioactively labelled N tau-methylhistidine in urine indicates that skeletal muscle accounts for 74.5% of the urinary excretion and this is probably an overestimate. These results suggest that the common assumption, that N tau-methylhistidine in urine originates almost entirely from skeletal muscle, may be wrong.

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