Plasma and tissue glutamine response to acute and chronic supplementation with L-glutamine and L-alanyl-L-glutamine in rats

Nutrition Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-270

  Rogero, Marcelo Macedo ^a   Tirapegui, Julio ^a   Pedrosa, Rogerio Graça ^a   De Oliveira Pires, Ivanir Santana ^a   De Castro, Inar Alves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alanyl glutamine; Amino acid; Dipeptides; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; LIVER; LIVER PRESERVATION; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION; TISSUE REACTION;

EID: 1642307100     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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