Nutritionally Nonessential Amino Acids: A Misnomer in Nutritional Sciences

Affiliations

¹ Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Animal Nutrition and Feed Safety, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China.
² Departments of Animal Science and Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX g-wu@tamu.edu.

Yongqing Hou et al. Adv Nutr. 2017.

. 2017 Jan 17;8(1):137-139.

doi: 10.3945/an.116.012971. Print 2017 Jan.

¹ Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Animal Nutrition and Feed Safety, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China.
² Departments of Animal Science and Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX g-wu@tamu.edu.

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