Specific roles of threonine in intestinal mucosal integrity and barrier function

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 3 E, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1192-1200

  Mao, Xiangbing ^a   Zeng, Xiangfang ^a   Qiao, Shiyan ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^a,b   Li, Defa ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Function; Integrity; Intestinl mucosal; Metabolism; Review; Threonine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LACTASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUCIN; MUCIN 2; SUCRASE; SUCRASE ISOMALTASE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTESTINE BRUSH BORDER MEMBRANE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE MUCOSA INTEGRITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; INTESTINE VILLUS ATROPHY; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPH FOLLICLE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PEYER PATCH; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPSIS; THREONINE DEFICIENCY; TIGHT JUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; THREONINE;

EID: 80053606830     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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