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. 2012 Jan 31;302(7):E885–E895. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00647.2011

Table 2.

Complete amino acid analysis of the diets

Amino Acid Casein GMP Amino Acid
Alanine 5.5 9.3 3.2
Arginine 6.5 4.8 8.8
Aspartic acid 12.5 14.2 9.0
Cysteine 3.3 0.3 3.3
Glutamic acid 40.0 33.0 36.5
Glycine 3.3 1.9 22.2
Histidine* 5.5 3.1 3.1
Isoleucine* 9.4 15.8 7.9
Leucine* 17.2 11.4 10.5
Lysine* 14.5 10.2 14.5
Methionine* 4.9 8.6 5.9
Phenylalanine* 9.2 2.6 2.2
Proline 19.0 18.5 3.8
Serine 8.9 10.2 2.4
Threonine* 7.4 24.0 7.6
Tryptophan* 2.7 1.6 1.9
Tyrosine* 8.4 4.8 4.4
Valine* 11.9 13.5 7.7

Values are in g/kg diet.

*

Indispensable amino acids.

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