Amino Acids: The Liver's Hidden Helpers
Some Amino Acids may help prevent liver diseases. ?Quantify with our LC-MS/MS Amino Acids Kit
Liver is a crucial organ not only for protein synthesis, degradation, and detoxification but also for amino acid metabolism. It contains a large number of non-essential amino acids such as alanine, aspartate, glutamate, glycine, and serine, as well as essential amino acids like histidine and threonine. These amino acids play roles in various cellular metabolic processes, lipid and nucleotide synthesis, and detoxification reactions.
?Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant tumor of the liver and the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. HCC arises from liver dysfunctions such as hepatitis B/C virus infections and conditions like alcoholic liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and cirrhosis.
?Understanding the role of amino acids in liver pathogenesis and the effects of amino acid intake on liver disease may provide a promising strategy for the prevention and treatment of liver diseases. Particularly, amino acids such as alanine, glutamate, aspartate, glycine, histidine, serine, threonine, methionine, and arginine are significant in understanding liver diseases.
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You can learn the amount of Amino Acid level with the Zivak Amino Acid Kit, by LC-MS/MS.