Sentences with phrase «arginine bioavailability»

In their paper entitled, «Malaria in pregnancy alters L - arginine bioavailability and placental vascular development,» Science Translational Medicine, 7 March 2018, Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI) and University of Toronto researchers report that Malawian women with malaria in pregnancy had altered levels of L - arginine which were associated with poor birth outcomes.

«Arginine bioavailability was slightly higher in people who had recovered from depression than in people who remained depressed.

People with depression had weaker arginine bioavailability than their non-depressed controls.

The global arginine bioavailability ratio, GABR, is an indicator of the body's arginine levels, and the ratio has previously been used to measure the body's capacity to produce nitric oxide.

However, we don't know yet what exactly causes reduced arginine bioavailability in people with depression,» says Doctoral Student Toni Ali - Sisto, the lead author of the study.

Published in Journal of Affective Disorders, the study shows that people suffering from MDD have reduced arginine bioavailability.

Reduced arginine bioavailability is also known to be an independent risk factor of cardiovascular diseases.