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l-Arginine in Health and Disease: Recommended Resources and Further Reading

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L-Arginine in Clinical Nutrition

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Arginine is a conditionally essential amino acid. Arginine is synthesized from citrulline in arginine and proline metabolism by argininosuccinate synthetase and argininosuccinate lyase in the cytosol (Wijnands et al., Nutrients 7(3):1426–1463, 2015).

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We would like to thank the following authors for contributing to the development of this resource (in alphabetical order): R. Amoroso, P. Bogdanski, C. Breuillard, C. Choe, D. de Luis, T. Dzimbova, C. Escudero, M. González, R. Hernández-Muñoz, F. Jahoor, H. Jacques, H.-C. Lo, M. Lomar Viana, C. R. Morris, K. Ogino, A. Pons, A. Reischak-Oliveira, W. Ren, V. Rochira, I. Sukhotnik, K. Takeuchi, C. K. L. Too, and S. Zachaki.

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  1. Nutritional Sciences Research Division, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 8WA, UK

    Rajkumar Rajendram BSc (Hons), MBBS (Dist), EDIC

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, UK

    Vinood B. Patel BSc, PhD

  3. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Nutritional Sciences Division, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, UK

    Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc

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Rajendram, R., Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (2017). l-Arginine in Health and Disease: Recommended Resources and Further Reading. In: Patel, V., Preedy, V., Rajendram, R. (eds) L-Arginine in Clinical Nutrition. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26009-9_48

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