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The biology of amino acid requirements: what do they mean and can we measure them?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Peter Reeds
Peter Reeds*
Affiliation:
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Corresponding author: Professor Peters Reeds, fax +1 713 798 7171, email preeds@bcm.tmc.edu
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Keywords

Amino acid requirementsDietary amino acidsRecommended dietary allowance

Information

Type
Workshop on ‘Protein and amino acid requirements and recommendations’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 13 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2001

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