L-Alanine → L-Glutamine

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The defined oral diets contained 427 calories/100 g and included 0.2% (w/w) choline chloride, 10% corn oil, 46.9% dextrin-white, 23.4% sucrose, 5% salt mixture, 0.5% vitamin mixture. Both diets consisted of 14% amino acids, including 7.17% total essential amino acids and 6.83% total nonessential amino acids. The diet lacking GLN (-GLN) contained 0.937% each of alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, proline and serine. The GLN-enriched diet (+GLN) contained 0.237% of these amino acids and 3.5% GLN. Thus, GLN represented 25% of total amino acids and 51% of nonessential amino acids in the +GLN diet.

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