Is Glutamine a Conditionally Essential Amino Acid?

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 297-309

  Lacey, Janet M ^a   Wilmore, Douglas W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CELL LINE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NUTRITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; BACTERIA; CELL LINE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GLUTAMINE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; MUSCLES; NUTRITION;

EID: 0025475371     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1990.tb02967.x     Document Type: Article

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