Wound healing and thymotropic effects of arginine: a pituitary mechanism of action
A Barbul, G Rettura, SM Levenson, E Seifter - The American journal of …, 1983 - Elsevier
Supplemental dietary arginine HCl (ARG-HC1) minimizes immediate post-wounding weight
loss, accelerates wound healing, and is thymotropic for uninjured and wounded rats. The
present experiments were to determine if arginine-pituitary interactions underlie these
effects because arginine is a growth hormone secretagogue. Effects of 1% dietary ARG-HC1
supplements (0.5% added to a regular commercial rat diet containing 1.8% ARG, 0.5% in
drinking water) were studied in (a) hypophysectomized (hypox) rats supplemented with …
loss, accelerates wound healing, and is thymotropic for uninjured and wounded rats. The
present experiments were to determine if arginine-pituitary interactions underlie these
effects because arginine is a growth hormone secretagogue. Effects of 1% dietary ARG-HC1
supplements (0.5% added to a regular commercial rat diet containing 1.8% ARG, 0.5% in
drinking water) were studied in (a) hypophysectomized (hypox) rats supplemented with …
