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ArticleThe British journal of nutrition2023

Low-quality protein modulates inflammatory markers and the response to lipopolysaccharide insult: the case of lysine.

Carla El-Mallah, Marie-Elizabeth E Ragi, Assaad Eid, Omar A Obeid

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Article in The British journal of nutrition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carla El-MallahDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-2693-6603
Marie-Elizabeth E RagiDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Assaad EidDepartment of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Omar A ObeidDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-7554-1296
American University of Beirut · LB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between non-communicable diseases and eating behaviour has long been attributed to a surplus of food and energy. However, the increase in the prevalence of non-communicable disease and their underlying low-grade inflammatory milieu among people of low socio-economic status has highlighted the existence of a confounding factor. In this work, we aim to study the effect of lysine deficiency on some inflammatory markers in the absence or presence of an inflammatory insult (lipopolysaccharide (LPS)). For this purpose, thirty-two 5-week-old male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly distributed into four groups: (1) control diet, (2) control diet+LPS, (3) lysine-deficient diet and (4) lysine-deficient diet + LPS. Groups were only allowed their experimental diets for 4 weeks, during which LPS (50 µg/kg) or saline injections were administered intraperitoneally three times per week. The study showed that lysine deficiency blunted growth and body compartments development, decreased albumin production and elevated liver C-reactive protein (CRP) expression, independently of IL-6 and IL-1

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LysineNoncommunicable DiseasesAnimalsDiet, Protein-RestrictedLipopolysaccharidesMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyLipopolysaccharidesLysineAlbuminAnxiety-like behaviourC-reactive proteinDeficiencyLysineRats

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PMID36597807
PMCPMC10442798
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