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Article: Dietary arginine important in arginine synthesis in neonatal porcine model.
- Article from:
- World Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 9, 2004
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2004 NOV 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arginine synthesis is regulated by dietary arginine intake in a neonatal piglet model.
According to a study from Canada, "Arginine is conditionally indispensable in the neonate, and its synthesis in the intestine is not sufficient to meet requirements. It is not known how neonatal endogenous arginine synthesis is regulated and the degree to which proline and glutamate are used as precursors."
D.L Wilkinson and coworkers, University of Alberta, explained, "Primed, constant intraportal and intragastric infusions of L-[U-[superscript]14C] proline and L-[3,4-[superscript]3H]glutamate, and intragastric ...