Amino acid availability and brain development: effects of nutritional and metabolic inadequacies

Huether, G.

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 43(Suppl): 19-25

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0954-3007
PMID: 2567665
Document Number: 344124
Inadequacies of the brain's amino acid supply are relevant to the processes of protein accretion and transmitter synthesis during brain development. Experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia has demonstrated the consequences of rather severe imbalances of the brain's amino acid supply. An inadequate supply of essential amino acids has been shown to influence a variety of developmental processes.

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