Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | quantification of MAO-B activity may be a useful diagnostic tool for differentiating glial tumours from other types of brain tumours or surrounding normal brain tissue | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | P27338 | - |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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brain | MAO-B activity is significantly greater in glioblastoma multiforms than in postmortem control brains or meningiomas. There are no significant differences in MAO-B activity between glioblastoma multiforms and low-grade astrocytomas or anaplastic astrocytomas | Homo sapiens | - |
glioma cell | activity selectively increases in MAO-B activity in human gliomas when compared with meningiomas or non-tumoural tissue | Homo sapiens | - |
meningioma cell | activity selectively increases in MAO-B activity in human gliomas when compared with meningiomas or non-tumoural tissue | Homo sapiens | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
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phenylethylamine + H2O + O2 | - |
Homo sapiens | phenylethanal + NH3 + H2O2 | - |
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Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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MAO-B | - |
Homo sapiens |
monoamine oxidase B | - |
Homo sapiens |