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Purdue University (USA)
Occupation: Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
Dr. John "Scott" Radcliffe is an Associate Professor in the Animal Sciences Department at Purdue University. He has a primary research appointment and focuses on "environmental nutrition" in swine.
Signature areas in his laboratory include: 1) enhancing the efficiency of mineral digestibility and absorption, 2) reducing nutrient excretion and improving air quality in swine production facilities, and 3) determining mechanisms regulating active mineral absorption.
Location: Indiana, United States
Article published the July 3, 2013
Dietary Thr may be particularly important to the mucus layer because of the importance that Thr has as a structural component of mucin proteins. Threonine and serine (Ser) play crucial roles linking carbohydrate groups through ester linkages to the mucin backbone (Montagne et al. 2004). Lein et al. (1997) reported that Thr and Ser represented approximately 40% of the total endogenous AA losses in ...
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