Glycine - An inert amino acid comes alive

Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 817-818

  Roth, Erich ^a   Zellner, Maria ^a   Wessner, Barbara ^a   Strasser, Eva ^a   Manhart, Nicole ^a   Oehler, Rudolf ^a   Spittler, Andreas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GLYCINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0042572148     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(03)00100-X     Document Type: Note

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