ABL won governmental research grant Keep studying mitochondria We just received a fantastic news from Provincial Government of Vojvodina that our research proposal "Dietary and Physiological Agents for Optimizing Mitochondrial Function" has been selected for funding! The Provincial Secretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research [...]
Targeting AGAT in molecular nutrition Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism L-arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT) is a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of creatine, a natural amino acid derivative that plays a major role in temporal and spatial energy buffering. AGAT is a tissue-specific enzyme, predominantly expressed [...]
Hydrogen improves cognition in elderly New ABL paper in IJG Our research on hydrogen has just been published in a recent issue of International Journal of Gerontology! We analyzed here the impact of 4-week hydrogen gas inhalation on cognitive performance in thirteen women aged 65 [...]
2020 Annual Nutrition Science Meeting Seattle turns into ONLINE The American Society for Nutrition cancelled its in-person meeting, NUTRITION 2020, following escalating concerns regarding COVID-19. However, the ASN reinvents NUTRITION 2020 as a live online virtual meeting that is going to be organized from June [...]
ABL reopening Slow and careful restart After a break of over 4 weeks, our lab is reopening, following the guidelines from the National Institute of Health and internal ABL regulations. Hopefully, the full capacity of ABL will be re-established by early June but we already [...]
Overcoming restraints of creatine New paper in Trends in Food Science Creatine is arguably among the most popular dietary supplements of the XXI century. During the past two decades, this natural glycine derivative has been extensively investigated and practiced in sports nutrition, while recent trials [...]
Gut microbiota as a source of GAA ABL paper in Medical Hypotheses Guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) is an important intermediate in energy metabolism, acting as a precursor of creatine. Mainly synthesized by the human kidney, liver and pancreas, GAA might be produced by the gut microbiota [...]
Lab break due to COVID-19 2-week shutdown Due to coronavirus pandemic, our lab will be shut down for 2 weeks in order to minimize the number of people in our facilities, both study participants and lab staff, in order to keep safe ABL human resources. [...]
Colloidal creatine for muscle bioenergetics ABL paper in CTNR Research on creatine is never-ending story, at least here in ABL! We just published another article that evaluates the efficacy of colloidal creatine for serum and skeletal muscle creatine in healthy men. It appears that innovative [...]
Another PhD thesis completed Dr Stajer and GAA research On December 25, our lab has become stronger since our chief technician, Valdemar Stajer, successfully defended his PhD thesis. After working very hard during the past four years, our colleague presented his research on exercise-induced dynamics [...]
