Dietary taurine or glycine supplementation reduces plasma and liver cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in rats fed a cholesterol-free diet

Nutrition Research

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1777-1789

  Park, Taesun ^a   Oh, Jooyeon ^a   Lee, Kyungshin ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Glycine; Rats; Taurine; Triglyceride

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CASEIN; GLYCINE; TAURINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033485899     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(99)00118-9     Document Type: Article

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