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Cysteic Acid in Dietary Keratin is Metabolized to Glutathione and Liver Taurine in a Rat Model of Human Digestion

Poultry feathers, consisting largely of keratin, are a low-value product of the poultry industry. The safety and digestibility of a dietary protein produced from keratin (KER) was compared to a cysteine-supplemented casein-based diet in a growing rat model for four weeks. KER proved to be an effecti...

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Published in:Nutrients
Main Authors: Wolber, Frances M., McGrath, Michelle, Jackson, Felicity, Wylie, Kim, Broomfield, Anne
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: MDPI 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772066/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26907334
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu8020104
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