Adaptation of in vivo amino acid kinetics facilitates increased amino acid availability for fetal growth in adolescent and adult pregnancies alike

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1779-1786

  Thame, Minerva M ^a   Hsu, Jean W ^b   Gibson, Raquel ^a   Baker, Tameka M ^a   Tang, Grace J ^b   Badaloo, Asha V ^a   Fletcher, Horace M ^a   Jackson, Alan A ^c   Jahoor, Farook ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Adult women; Alanine flux; Glutamine flux; Pregnancies; Protein turnover; Urea flux

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; PROTEIN; UREA; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; BLOOD; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; BLOOD PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KINETICS; LEUCINE; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS;

EID: 84925581528     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000711451400292X     Document Type: Article

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