Dietary essentiality of “nutritionally non-essential amino acids” for animals and humans

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 240, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 997-1007

  Hou, Yongqing ^a   Yin, Yulong ^a,b   Wu, Guoyao ^a,c  

^a WUHAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; animals; humans; nutrition; requirement

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMMONIA; BETA ALANINE; BETAINE; CARNITINE; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DEXTRO ALANINE; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; DEXTRO SERINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; NONESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; NORADRENALIN; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYAMINE; S6 KINASE; TAU INTERFERON; THYROXINE; AMINO ACID;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ANTIOXIDANT ASSAY; ARTICLE; CELL SIGNALING ASSAY; CELL SURVIVAL; DETOXIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; POULTRY; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 84939540651     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370215587913     Document Type: Article

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