Chronic dietary supplementation with kynurenic acid, a neuroactive metabolite of tryptophan, decreased body weight without negative influence on densitometry and mandibular bone biomechanical endurance in young rats

• Ewa Tomaszewska ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ewaRST@interia.pl (ET); siemowit.muszynski@up.lublin.pl (SM)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Physiology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7574-2653

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• Siemowit Muszyński ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ewaRST@interia.pl (ET); siemowit.muszynski@up.lublin.pl (SM)

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4118-6302

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• Damian Kuc,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Age Stomatology, Chair of Developmental Age Stomatology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Piotr Dobrowolski,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Anatomy and Anthropology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5873-9666

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• Krzysztof Lamorski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Bohdan Dobrzański Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin, Poland

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• Katarzyna Smolińska,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Surgical Nursing, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Janine Donaldson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, South Africa

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• Izabela Świetlicka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Maria Mielnik-Błaszczak,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Age Stomatology, Chair of Developmental Age Stomatology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Piotr Paluszkiewicz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of General, Oncological and Metabolic Surgery, Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warszawa, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7993-1654

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• Jolanta Parada-Turska

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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