OBJECTIVE To establish comprehensive reference ranges for plasma amino acid and whole blood taurine concentrations in healthy adult cats eating commercial diets and to evaluate the relationships of age, sex, body weight, body condition score (BCS), dietary protein concentration, and dietary ingredients with plasma amino acid and whole blood taurine concentrations. ANIMALS 120 healthy adult ca...

OBJECTIVE to compare amino acid concentrations in healthy and malnourished elderly patients. METHOD plasma amino acid concentrations were examined in 24 men and women (80-100 years of age) with protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and compared with those of 44 healthy, similarly-aged controls. Plasma samples were determined by using cation exchange columns with ninhydrin detection in an high per...

A Novel UPLC–MS/MS Method for Determination of γ-Amino Butyric acid Analogue in Human Plasma: Application to Pharmacokinetic StudyAnju Aji, Sarita Karthikeyan, Sarabjit Singh, Shivanand P. Puthli

Plasma amino acid levels have never been studied in the placental intervillous space of preterm gestations. Our objective was to determine the possible relationship between plasma amino acids of maternal venous blood (M), of the placental intervillous space (PIVS) and of the umbilical vein (UV) of preterm newborn infants. Plasma amino acid levels were analyzed by ion-exchange chromatography in ...

A total of eighteen amino acids were determined quantitatively in the seminal plasma and spermatozoa of fowl semen. Glutamic acid was the major component in both fractions. In the spermatozoan fraction, only six amino acids were detected, namely glutamic acid, lysine, arginine, serine, aspartic acid and threonine. Except for serine and lysine, the amino acid concentrations in the spermatozoan f...

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain the cause of this cell death is unknown. Homocysteine (Hcy) is a non-protein amino acid. It is a homologue of the amino acid cysteine. The elevated levels of homocysteine in p...

The intestinal peptide transporter PEPT1 mediates the uptake of di- and tripeptides derived from dietary protein breakdown into epithelial cells. Whereas the transporter appears to be essential to compensate for the reduced amino acid delivery in patients with mutations in amino acid transporter genes, such as in cystinuria or Hartnup disease, its physiological role in overall amino acid absorp...