Safety of long-term dietary supplementation with l-arginine in pigs

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 925-936

  Hu, Shengdi ^a   Li, Xilong ^a   Rezaei, Reza ^a   Meininger, Cynthia J ^a   McNeal, Catherine J ^b   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Humans; Nutrition; Safety; Swine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMMONIA; ARGININE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; ORNITHINE; PROLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PIG; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUCKLING ANIMAL; TIME; WEANING; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ALANINE; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ARGININE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHOLESTEROL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORNITHINE; PROLINE; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WEANING;

EID: 84939964847     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1921-5     Document Type: Article

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