Supplementing healthy women with up to 5.0 g/d of l-tryptophan has no adverse effects

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 859-866

  Hiratsuka, Chiaki ^a   Fukuwatari, Tsutomu ^a   Sano, Mitsue ^a   Saito, Kuniaki ^b   Sasaki, Satoshi ^c   Shibata, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYANTHRANILIC ACID; 3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; ANTHRANILIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE; NICOTINAMIDE; PLACEBO; PYRIDOXINE; QUINOLINIC ACID; RIBOFLAVIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE; NIACINAMIDE; ORTHO-AMINOBENZOATES; PLACEBOS; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878230365     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.173823     Document Type: Article

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