Dietary glutamine supplementation reduces plasma nitrate levels in rats

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-14

  Houdijk, A P J ^a   Visser, J J ^a   Rijnsburger, E R ^a   Teerlink, T ^a   Van Leeuwen, P A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arginine; Citrulline; Enteral feeding; Glutamine; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; GLUTAMINE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMINO ACID URINE LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0031926003     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5614(98)80037-X     Document Type: Article

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