Glutamine protects against increases in blood ammonia in football players in an exercise intensity-dependent way

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 260-266

  Bassini Cameron, A ^a,b   Monteiro, A ^a,c,d   Gomes, A ^a,e   Werneck de Castro, J P S ^a,f   Cameron, L ^a,b,c,g  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Castelo Branco   (Brazil)

^d Universidade Iguçu   (Brazil)

^e ESTÁCIO DE SÁ UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^g NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; CREATININE; GLUTAMINE; URATE; UREA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXERCISE; FOOTBALL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERAMMONEMIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; ALANINE; AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CREATININE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; SOCCER; UREA; URIC ACID;

EID: 42249109991     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2007.040378     Document Type: Article

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