It stimulates your release of growth hormone and ornithine decarboxylase enzymes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary]

Jesse was participating in a gene therapy trial for ornithine transcarboxylase deficiency (OTCD).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene Therapy Novel Therapeutic Branch of Modern Medicine] Reference

D. Dakin he investigated arginase, the ferment which hydrolyses arginine into urea and ornithine, and later he discovered agmatine in herring roe and devised a method for preparing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albrecht Kossel - Biography] Reference

Plasma ornithine increased exponentially over the same period.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Research has also shown that ornithine helps promote healing and tissue repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Levin VA (2007) Regulation of ornithine decarboxylase during oncogenic transformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

OTC is a genetic disorder resulting in a mutated and ineffective form of the enzyme ornithine.    From Wordnik.com.  [House is Right] Reference

In the study, researchers found that inhibiting the production of ornithine decarboxylase ODC1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medindia Health News] Reference

In mammalian cells, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) catalyzes the rate-limiting step in polyamine biosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Kopitz J, Rist B, Bohley P (1990) Post-translational arginylation of ornithine decarboxylase from rat hepatocytes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

You can also get ornithine from your diet; meat, fish, dairy products, and eggs are also good sources of this nutrient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Arginases hydrolyse arginine to urea and ornithine, the latter being the precursor of polyamines, the well-studied wound healers.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Previously, we identified ZNF9 in a screen for proteins binding to an IRES element from the rat ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) mRNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

By helping to elevate growth hormone levels, ornithine may help speed the production of muscle tissue and offset the effects of aging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

No side effects have been reported with the use of ornithine, although gastrointestinal distress may develop with intakes over 10 grams per day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

In 1999, a young patient participating in an experimental therapy for ornithine transcarboxylase deficiency (OTCD) died when his immune response rejected the virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetics & Health] Reference

Nilsson J, Grahn B, Heby O (2000) Antizyme inhibitor is rapidly induced in growth-stimulated mouse fibroblasts and releases ornithine decarboxylase from antizyme suppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In one study, participants taking 18 grams of ornithine aspartate for two weeks showed significant improvement in blood tests and liver function compared to the placebo group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Laboratory studies have shown that ornithine increases both insulin and growth hormone levels, which are needed to build and maintain muscle during intensive physical training.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

However, in mammalian non-hepatic tissues, the main use of the urea cycle are in arginine biosynthesis, so as an intermediate in metabolic processes, ornithine is quite important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference

While this intracellular compartmentalization might endow them with distinct biological activities, they both transform L-Arg into L-ornithine, a precursor of polyamines and proline.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

CO (NH2) 2, is synthesised in the liver in two stages: first, the deamination of amino acids to produce ammonia, and second, the use of this ammonia in the ornithine cycle to form urea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Besides, the protective role of arginase is well documented in studies where the ornithine generated via arginases helps in producing extensins at the site of wound-induced tissue damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Certain proteins called polyamines are needed for this rapid cell growth and differentiation, and the production of these polyamines depends on the activity of an enzyme, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC).    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Previously, our group identified ZNF9 as a positive regulator of IRES-mediated translation for the rat ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) mRNA trans-activating factor (ITAF) for cap-independent translation of the human ODC mRNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(hyperargininemia), ornithine translocase deficiency syndrome (HHH).    From Wordnik.com.  [National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases] Reference

(e.g. cyclooxygenses or ornithine decarboxylase). mitochondria are the powerhouse of cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

•inhibits ornithine decarboxylase (an enzyme in hair dermal papilla that is essential for hair growth).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Actb), ornithine decarboxylase (Odc), Gfap, and neurofilament light chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

"Efficacy of oral L-ornithine-L-aspartate in cirrhotic patients with hyperammonemic hepatic encephalopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Single cell cDNA libraries were considered to be of good quality if they were positive for high (β-actin or Actb) and low abundance (ornithine decarboxylase or Odc.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(2000) Discovery of a spermatogenesis stage-specific ornithine decarboxylase antizyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(1996) Cloning of antizyme inhibitor, a highly homologous protein to ornithine decarboxylase.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(2004) Intracellular localization of ornithine decarboxylase and its regulatory protein, antizyme-1.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(2008) Human ornithine decarboxylase paralogue (ODCp) is an antizyme inhibitor but not an arginine decarboxylase.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

L-ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]