Table 1.
Blood amino acid concentrations.
| CON | CIT |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 min | 20 min | 30 min | ||
| Arginine (nmol/mL) | 169.2 ± 12.1 | 325.9 ± 33.0 * | 389.5 ± 35.5 * | 455.4 ± 18.3 * |
| Citrulline (nmol/mL) | 64.6 ± 7.8 | 1089.0 ± 98.9 * | 1599.3 ± 178.3 * | 2230.0 ± 192.3 * |
| Isoleucine (nmol/mL) | 105.6 ± 12.2 | 87.0 ± 12.7 * | 83.2 ± 9.9 * | 89.4 ± 6.8 * |
| Leucine (nmol/mL) | 155.7 ± 15.0 | 127.8 ± 18.6 * | 122.9 ± 14.7 * | 124.9 ± 11.8 * |
| Ornithine (nmol/mL) | 55.2 ± 7.1 | 81.8 ± 8.4 * | 120.3 ± 26.3 * | 132.6 ± 16.0 * |
| Valine (nmol/mL) | 201.2 ± 24.0 | 159.0 ± 23.2 * | 164.7 ± 23.6 * | 168.5 ± 11.9 * |
| BCAA (nmol/mL) | 462.5 ± 50.6 | 373.8 ± 53.9 * | 370.7 ± 47.5 * | 382.7 ± 30.3 * |
CON, control rats; CIT, rats 10, 20, and 30 min after l-citrulline (1000 mg/kg, p.o.) administration; BCAA, branched-chain amino acids. Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation, n = 6. *p < 0.05 by Dunnett's test, compared with CON.