Environmental physiology & biochemistry 1975
Changes in free and bound amino acids in experimental silicosis.
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The amino acid composition of lung, serum and liver in silicotic rats was studied in order to assess the availability of precursors in lung for fibrogenesis. It was observed that the pool of ornithine, arginine, alanine, leucine, valine, glutamic acid, lysine, proline and glycine underwent marked alterations. Free arginine, proline and leucine were only detectable in silicotic lung, while free glycine, glutamic acid and glutamine pools decreased significantly in liver. Changes in amino acid metabolism as a result of silicosis are discussed.