Ammonia
- excess are broken down
- generic way aa metabolized
- toxic to brain
- amino group passed to a keto to become glutamate
Glutamine
Alanine
- amino group passed to pyruvate to create alanine
- alanine taken to liver but can't be metabolized
Urea
- only in liver
- high levels of glutamate and acetyl coa in fed state
- activate urea cycle
- all area amino acids
- urea cycle happen in liver
- if no aa ingested, little aa breakdown
- only used in children
- arginine becomes essential