Peng Li

TL;DR: Increasing evidence shows that dietary supplementation of specific amino acids to animals and humans with malnutrition and infectious disease enhances the immune status, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: The results of both experimental and clinical studies indicate that Arg is a nutritionally essential amino acid (AA) for spermatogenesis, embryonic survival, fetal and neonatal growth, as well as maintenance of vascular tone and hemodynamics and novel and effective therapies for obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: Dietary supplementation with specific amino acids may be beneficial for increasing the chemo-attractive property and nutritional value of aquafeeds with low fishmeal inclusion, and enhancing immunity and tolerance to environmental stresses.

TL;DR: Work with young pigs (a widely used animal model for studying infant nutrition) has shown that supplementing 0.1% proline to a proline-free chemically defined diet dependently improved daily growth rate and feed efficiency while reducing concentrations of urea in plasma.

TL;DR: Test the hypothesis that weaning or glutamine may modulate expression of genes that are crucial for intestinal metabolism and function and reveal coordinate alterations of gene expression in response to weaning, providing molecular mechanisms for the beneficial effect of dietary glutamine supplementation to improve nutrition status in young mammals.