Graduate Programs in the Life Sciences

Lartey, F. M. and R. E. Austic (2008) Phenylalanine requirement, imbalance, and dietary excess in one-week-old chicks: growth and phenylalanine hydroxylase activity. Poultry Science 87:291-297.

Keene, J. C. and R. E. Austic (2001) Dietary supplements of mixtures of amino acids lacking threonine, phenylalanine or histidine increase the activity of hepatic threonine dehydrogenase, phenylalanine hydroxylase or histidase, respectively, and prevent growth depressions in chicks caused by dietary excesses of threonine, phenylalanine, or histidine. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 12:274-284.

Yuan, J.-H, A. J. Davis, and R. E. Austic (2000) Temporal response of hepatic threonine dehydrogenase in chickens to the initial consumption of a threonine-imbalanced diet. Journal of Nutrition 130:2746-2752.

Park, B.-C. and R. E. Austic (1998) Changes in hepatic branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase activity in response to isoleucine imbalance in growing chickens. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 9:687-696.