Dictionary definition: amino acid

Article: Small changes in essential amino acid ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  May 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... rats Small Changes in Essential Amino Acid Concentrations Alter ... severely deficient in, an essential amino acid (reviewed in Rogers ... believed to simulate an amino acid deficiency because the essential amino acids added to a low ...

Article: Threonine deprivation rapidly activates the system A amino ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... APC) of the brain in rats or its analog in birds likely houses the in vivo amino acid chemosensor. Because amino acid transporters adapt rapidly to essential amino acid deficiency in several cell models, we hypothesized that activation of electrogenic ...

Dictionary definition: essential amino acid pattern
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition;      241 words ...essential amino acid pattern The quantities of essential amino acids considered desirable in the diet.

Article: Protein deficiency and the essential amino ...
Natural Life;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... various arrangements of amino acid groupings are at work ... complex molecules made of amino acid chains called polypeptides ... arrangements of up to 22 amino acid polypeptides, including eight to ten essential amino acids - otherwise known ...

Article: Essential amino acid deficiency enhances ...
The Journal of Nutrition;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Essential Amino Acid Deficiency Enhances Long-Term ... not been explored thoroughly. Essential amino acid (EAA) deficiency represents a ... the level of or eliminating an essential amino acid (EAA) from the diet impairs physiologic ...

Article: essential amino acid
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      222 words ... ... Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 essential amino acid, an organic compound that is ... growth in infants and children. Essential amino acids must be obtained from the ... considered semiessential. See also amino acid. The ideas, procedures and ...

Article: Arginine: clinical potential of a semi-essential ...
Alternative Medicine Review;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Arginine, a semi-essential amino acid, is involved in numerous areas of human biochemistry ... 512-522) Introduction Arginine is a semi-essential amino acid involved in multiple areas of human physiology and ...