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Metabolism and Nutrition of L-Glutamate and L-Glutamine in Ruminants

Wu G, Bazer FW, Johnson GA, Satterfield MC, Washburn SE 2024 Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Abstract

Although both L-glutamate (Glu) and L-glutamine (Gln) have long been considered nutritionally nonessential in ruminants, these two amino acids have enormous nutritional and physiological importance. Results of recent studies revealed that extracellular Gln is extensively degraded by ruminal microbes, but extracellular…

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Cattle

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Amino acidsMetabolismGlutamineGlutamateNutritionRuminants

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