Increased Plasma Citrulline in Mice Marks Diet-Induced Obesity and May Predict the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sailer, Manuela ^a   Dahlhoff, Christoph ^a   Giesbertz, Pieter ^a   Eidens, Mena K ^a   de Wit, Nicole ^b,c   Rubio Aliaga, Isabel ^a   Boekschoten, Mark V ^b,c   Müller, Michael ^b,c   Daniel, Hannelore ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CITRULLINE; INSULIN; ORNITHINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSULIN DEFICIENCY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY; LIPID DIET; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; SMALL INTESTINE; UREA CYCLE;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ANIMALS; CITRULLINE; DIET, HIGH-FAT; INSULIN; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; ORNITHINE;

EID: 84877758478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063950     Document Type: Article

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