Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition

Description

An examination of the increased bioavailability amino acid chelates, this book assembles chemical, clinical, and nutritional studies explaining how the body responds to amino acid chelates. It presents analytical procedures for producing amino acid chelates that are used in research relating to mineral bioavailability. The chapters cover fundamentals of mineral nutrition; chemistry of chelation; history of nutritional chelates; absorption pathways; tissue metabolism and metabolic responses; nutrient uptake; and toxicity of amino acid chelates.

Features

• Reviews absorption and metabolism of specialized structures and effects of amino acid chelates
• Identifies absorption pathways of amino acid chelates demonstrating how the body can overcome natural barriers in mineral absorption
• Uses active transport and facilitated diffusion to describe amino acid chelate absorption
• Provides several analytical methods supporting amino acid chelation

Table of Contents

• The Fundamentals of Mineral Nutrition
• The Chemistry of Chelation
• The History of Nutritional Chelates
• The Requirements for a Nutritionally Functional Chelate
• The Development of Analytical Methods to Prove Amino Acid Chelation
• Absorption of Amino Acid Chelates from the Alimentary Canal
• The Pathways for Absorption of an Amino Acid Chelate
• The Absorption of Amino Acid Chelates by Active Transport
• The Absorption of Amino Acid Chelates by Facilitated Diffusion
• The Fate of Amino Acid Chelates in the Mucosal Cell
• The Uptake of Amino Acid Chelates Into and Out of the Plasma
• Tissue Metabolism of Amino Acid Chelates
• Some Metabolic Responses of the Body to Amino Acid Chelates
• Toxicity of Amino Acid Chelates
• The Absorption and Metabolism of Amino Acid Chelates
• Index