To confirm glutamine's role in vision, the researchers used mice that lacked the enzyme glutaminase, which breaks down ...

Scientists have discovered that an amino acid called glutamine is essential for keeping the eye’s light-sensing cells healthy ...

Glycine is the smallest amino acid - one of the building blocks of proteins. It acts also as a neurotransmitter in the brain, enabling neurons to communicate with each other and modulating ...

Glycine is the smallest amino acid and a building block of proteins, and also a critical neurotransmitter that can both stimulate or inhibit neurons in the brain and thereby control complex brain ...

In a paper published in eLife, University of Michigan researchers studied the dependence of photoreceptors on glutamine.