Title : Medical hypothesis: hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for estrogen-induced hormonal cancer.

Pub. Date : 2003 Mar

PMID : 12579301






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1 Mechanistically, hyperhomocysteinemia may exert its pathogenic effects largely through metabolic accumulation of intracellular S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine, a strong non-competitive inhibitor of the catechol-O-methyltransferase-mediated methylation metabolism of endogenous and exogenous catechol estrogens (mainly 2-hydroxyestradiol and 4-hydroxyestradiol). 2-hydroxyestradiol catechol-O-methyltransferase Homo sapiens