Plasma free amino acid values in normal children and adolescents

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
D M GregoryC R Scriver

Abstract

We measured plasma free amino acids in 52 children (mean age 8 years) and 80 adolescents (mean age 16 years); conditions of diet and time of day were similar in the two groups. The protocols allowed us to compare their interindividual variation with values previously reported by us for adults. In children, the values for all but seven amino acids were normally distributed; in adolescents there were only six exceptions. Effects of age were apparent: values for only two amino acids were higher in children than adolescents. Values were significantly lower for ten amino acids in children v adolescents and for 11 amino acids in younger children (1 to 6 years) v older children (7 to 12 years). An effect of sex was apparent for five amino acids in adolescents; such differences were not apparent in children. All differences were quasicontinuous and occurred within the global distributions that define values for plasma amino acids in normal children and adolescents. Two artifacts (choice of anticoagulant and delay in deproteinization) affected values for taurine and cystine, respectively.

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