Is tryptophan 'more' essential than other essential aminoacids in development? a morphologic study

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 361-369

  Imbesi, R ^a   Mazzone, V ^b   Castrogiovanni, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Dept of Human Anatomy Diagnostic Pathology Forensic Medicine and Public Health G F Ingrassia

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADRENAL GLAND; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOLOGY; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; DWARFISM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGING; AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DWARFISM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GROWTH HORMONE; LACTATION; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRYPTOPHAN;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 70349220989     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2009.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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