Regulatory roles for L-arginine in reducing white adipose tissue

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2237-2246

  Tan, Bi'e ^a   Li, Xinguo ^b   Yin, Yulong ^a   Wu, Zhenlong ^c   Liu, Chuang ^c   Tekwe, Carmen D ^d   Wu, Guoyao ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (China)

^b Hunan Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Arginine; Energy partitioning; Lipid metabolism; Nutrition; Pigs; Review

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84860363341     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/4047     Document Type: Article

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