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

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1909-1920

  Yang, Ying ^a,b   Wu, Zhenlong ^b   Jia, Sichao ^a   Dahanayaka, Sudath ^a   Feng, Shuo ^a   Meininger, Cynthia J ^a   McNeal, Catherine J ^c   Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Humans; Nutrition; Safety; Swine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; ARGININE; FATTY ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE AMIDINOTRANSFERASE; HISTIDINE; HOMOARGININE; LEPTIN; LYSINE; METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORNITHINE; PROLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; CASEIN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME REGULATION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY; LIVER; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PHARMACOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; SUIDAE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CASEINS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84940460602     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-1992-3     Document Type: Article

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