. 2010 Nov 24;141(1):63–70. doi: 10.3945/jn.110.131888

TABLE 2.

Selected plasma amino acid and glucose concentrations in PEN pigs acutely infused i.g. with either saline or various arginine precursors and substrates¹ ²

Substrate	Saline³	Citrulline	Glutamine	Glutamate	Glucose
	μmol/L
Arginine	115 ± 19^a	561 ± 32^c	206 ± 32^b	150 ± 10^ab	107 ± 9^a
Citrulline	125 ± 5^a	2481 ± 100^c	233 ± 22^b	134 ± 12^a	153 ± 12^a
Glutamine	291 ± 17^a	249 ± 10^a	842 ± 76^c	400 ± 15^b	311 ± 21^a
Glutamate	172 ± 16^a	178 ± 14^a	285 ± 18^b	282 ± 29^b	189 ± 12^a
Ornithine	48 ± 2^a	150 ± 11^b	68 ± 6^a	85 ± 7^b	46 ± 3^a
Proline	411 ± 12^a	432 ± 20^ab	483 ± 18^b	490 ± 27^b	447 ± 16^a
Glucose, mmol/L	6.27 ± 0.14	6.64 ± 0.39	6.01 ± 0.28	6.85 ± 0.18	6.54 ± 0.26

Means ± SEM, = 8. Means in a row with superscripts without a common letter differ, P < 0.05.

I.g. infusion rate of citrulline, glutamine, glutamate, and glucose was 800 mol⋅kg⁻¹⋅h⁻¹.

Values for saline represent overall mean from each arginine dose level ( = 32).