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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Creatine Phosphate: Amino Acid Precursors Mnemonic

"Nice GAMs!"

Glycine
Arginine
Methionine


  Gam is slang for a person's leg, especially an attractive female's leg: "Nice
gams = nice legs!"
  Creatine phosphate is a muscle energy store, and spontaneously converts to
creatinine which is excreted in the urine in direct proportion to muscle mass:
clinically useful, such as in MS Dx.

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