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The Murine Choline-Deficient, Ethionine-Supplemented (CDE) Diet Model of Chronic Liver Injury
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Here we describe a common method to induce chronic liver injury in mice by feeding of a choline-deficient and ethionine-supplemented (CDE) diet. We demonstrate health monitoring, liver perfusion, isolation, and preservation. A time course of six weeks can inform about liver injury, pathohistology, fibrosis, inflammatory, and liver progenitor cell responses.
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Glutamine Flux Imaging Using Genetically Encoded Sensors
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Caenorhabditis elegans is a useful model to explore the functions of polyunsaturated fatty acids in development and physiology. This protocol describes an efficient method of supplementing the C. elegans diet with polyunsaturated fatty acids.
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Therapeutic Effectiveness of a Dietary Supplement for Management of Halitosis in Dogs
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We describe a simple approach for diagnosis of halitosis in dogs as well as a dietary approach for its management. This protocol may be extended to the management of halitosis in humans in the near future.
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Analyzing Beneficial Effects of Nutritional Supplements on Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Functions During Experimental Colitis
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Current treatments of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) aim at alleviating disease symptoms but may cause severe side effects. Thus, alternative strategies are being investigated in animal colitis models. Here, we explain how the beneficial effects of diet supplements on clinical IBD signs are analyzed in such a colitis model.
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After ingestion, glutamine is absorbed and metabolized as a source of both carbon and nitrogen. This gives tissues access to substrates that can support metabolic processes while also changing the amino-acid supply available to neural and peripheral systems. Behavioral experiments therefore examine dietary glutamine as a nutritional variable that may connect metabolism with changes in observed behavior.
In neural and peripheral tissues, glutamine can contribute to production of precursors for glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. This pathway provides a biochemical link between dietary amino-acid availability and neural function without assuming that every behavioral change results from neurotransmitter alterations. Measuring behavior alongside nutritional manipulation helps investigate that possible connection.
Glutamine supplies more than a potential neural precursor source because its carbon and nitrogen can be metabolized throughout the body. Those metabolic effects may influence how researchers interpret behavioral outcomes, since an observed change could reflect broader physiological regulation rather than a direct alteration in neural signaling. The diet therefore supports integrated metabolic and behavioral analysis.
Studies can assess several behavioral domains, including general activity, learning, stress-related responses, and social behavior. Considering multiple endpoints helps determine whether altered amino-acid availability is associated with a broad behavioral effect or with a more specific domain. These outcomes also provide different ways to examine links between nutrition, neural processes, and behavioral regulation.
The dietary manipulation is created by adding glutamine to a standard food or drinking solution. Researchers then use the resulting feeding regimen to test how increased glutamine availability relates to physiological and behavioral measures. The exact food or solution format can be selected according to the experimental model, while keeping the nutritional intervention clearly defined.
Results can help connect dietary composition with metabolic, neural, and behavioral regulation. For example, changes in activity, learning, stress-related responses, or social behavior may show that nutritional amino-acid availability is relevant to brain-related function. These findings can also inform nutritional models that examine how feeding conditions contribute to the regulation of behavior.