Effects of a Vespa amino acid mixture identical to hornet larval saliva on the blood biochemical indices of running rats

Nutrition Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 999-1012

  Tsuchita, Hiroshi ^a   Shirai Morishita, Yoko ^a   Shimizu, Taki ^a   Abe, Takashi ^b  

^a MEIJI DAIRIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Blood glucose; Exercise; Hornet larval saliva; Plasma free fatty acid

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; INSECT; LARVA; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALIVA;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; INSECTA; VESPA;

EID: 0030893256     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(97)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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