Effect of branched-chain amino acid supplementation on the oxidized/reduced state of plasma albumin in rats with chronic liver disease

Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-71

  Kuwahata, Masashi ^a   Kubota, Hiroyo ^a   Katsukawa, Misaki ^a   Ito, Shunsuke ^a   Ogawa, Aki ^a   Kobayashi, Yukiko ^a   Nakamura, Yasushi ^a   Kido, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acids; Chronic liver disease; Rats; Reduced albumin; Ribosomal protein S6

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN S6; SERUM ALBUMIN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84855409388     PISSN: 09120009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.11-37     Document Type: Article

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