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Cancer

These findings suggest that PFAA profiling has great potential for improving cancer screening and diagnosis and understanding disease pathogenesis. PFAA profiles can also be used to determine various disease

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Sarcopenia (Muscle Wasting)

Essential Amino acid supplementation acutely stimulated muscle protein synthesis in both young and elderly individuals These preliminary data indicate that nutritional supplements with the oral

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Obesity

Elevations in the concentrations of circulating BCAAs are significantly associated with obesity in children and adolescents, and may independently predict future insulin resistance. Sustained augmentation of IGF-1 with the

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Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome

Diet supplementation with AAs lowers plasma TG, total cholesterol, and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations and liver lipid content in impaired glucose tolerant elderly. AA

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Treatment of Type 2 DM

Fasting and postprandial (1 hour and 2 hours) blood glucose, serum insulin, and homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (an index of insulin resistance) significantly decreased during

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Insulin resistance

Branched-chain and aromatic amino acids are markers of the development of insulin resistance in young, normoglycemic adults, with most pronounced associations for men. These findings suggest that the association of branched-chain and aromatic amino

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