Child Stunting is Associated with Low Circulating Essential Amino Acids

EBioMedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 246-252

  Semba, Richard D ^a   Shardell, Michelle ^b   Sakr Ashour, Fayrouz A ^c   Moaddel, Ruin ^b   Trehan, Indi ^d,e   Maleta, Kenneth M ^e   Ordiz, M Isabel ^d   Kraemer, Klaus ^f,g   Khadeer, Mohammed A ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^b   Manary, Mark J ^d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^f Sight and Life   (Switzerland)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Children; Glycerophospholipids; Malnutrition; Sphingolipids; Stunting

Indexed keywords

6 N,N' DIMETHYLARGININE; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; ORNITHINE; PHENYLALANINE; SPHINGOLIPID; TAURINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; VALINE; CHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLOMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STUNTING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; GROWTH DISORDERS; INFANT; MALAWI; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; METABOLOMICS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SPHINGOLIPIDS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84959176518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.02.030     Document Type: Article

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