Contribution of serum albumin to the transport of orally administered L-tryptophan into liver of rats with L-tryptophan depletion

Amino Acids

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-39

  Sasaki, E ^a   Ohta, Yoshiji ^a   Shinohara, R ^b   Ishiguro, I ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

methyl DL tryptophan; Amino acids; Analbuminemic rat; L tryptophan; L tryptophan depletion; Serum albumin; Transport

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN 2,3 DIOXYGENASE;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDERS; BRAIN; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERUM ALBUMIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN OXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033015067     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01318883     Document Type: Article

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