期刊论文

Wu, Guoyao

英文

Amino Acids

0939-4451

2018

50

11

1497-1510

10.1007/s00726-018-2634-3

This work was supported, in part, by Grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFD0501210), Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2016CFA070), Hubei Provincial Technology and Innovation Program (2016ABA121), the Program of National Agricultural Research Outstanding Talents of China (2015), Hubei Hundred Talent program, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants (2014-67015-21770 and 2015-67015-23276) from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and Texas A&M AgriLife Research (H-8200). The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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l-Glutamate (Glu) has traditionally not been considered as a nutrient needed in diets for humans and other animals (including swine) due to the unsubstantiated assumption that animals can synthesize sufficient amounts of Glu to meet their needs. The lack of knowledge about Glu nutrition has contributed to suboptimal efficiency of global livestock production. Over the past 25 years, there has been growing interest in Glu metabolism in the pig, which is an agriculturally important species and also a useful model for studying human biology. Because of analytical advances in its analysis, Glu is n...