Creatine synthesis is a major metabolic process in neonatal piglets and has important implications for amino acid metabolism and methyl balance.

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Summary

It is found that piglets acquire 12.5 mmol of total creatine between 4 and 11 d of age, which makes very large demands on arginine and methionine metabolism, although the magnitude of the demand depends on the rate of remethylation of homocysteine and of reamidination of ornithine.

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2009-07-01
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Creatine, Methionine, Choline, Homocysteine, Arginine

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