L-arginine-nitric oxide metabolism. Glutamine: A new player in this metabolic game?

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-2

  Roth, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL CULTURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; NOTE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

EID: 0031593311     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5614(98)80034-4     Document Type: Editorial

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