Effect of alpha-difluoromethylornithine, an enzyme-activated irreversible inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase, on polyamine levels in rat tissues.

Animals Carboxy-Lyases/antagonists & inhibitors Male Organ Size Organ Specificity Ornithine/analogs & derivatives,pharmacology Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibitors Polyamines/metabolism Prostate/metabolism Putrescine/metabolism Rats Spermidine/metabolism Spermine/metabolism Testis/metabolism Thymus Gland/metabolism

Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibitors Polyamines Spermine Ornithine Carboxy-Lyases Spermidine Putrescine