Pauline B Darling, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Nutrition and Dietetic Research, St Michael's Hospital St. Michael's Hospital Rm 56D, 6th Floor Victoria West Toronto Ontario M5B 1W8 CANADA Tel: (416) 864-5535 Fax: (416) 864-5414 Email: darlingp@smh.toronto.on.ca

Research

Amino acid and homocysteine metabolism in clinical conditions such as chronic renal failure.
Nutrition and growth of low birthweight infants. Practice-based dietetic research

Selected Publications

• Sarwar G, Botting HG, Davis T, Darling P and Pencharz PB. Free amino acids in milk of human subjects, other primates and non-primates. Br J Nutr 79:129-131, 1998.
• Darling, P, Bross R, Wykes L, Ball RO, Pencharz PB. Isotopic enrichment of amino acids in urine following oral infusions of L-[1-13C]phenylalanine and L-[1-13C]lysine in humans: confounding effect of D-[13C]amino acids. Metabolism, accepted for publication, 1998.
• Darling, P, Dunn M, Sarwar G, Steve Brookes, Ball RO, Pencharz PB. Threonine kinetics in preterm infants fed their mother’s milk or formula with varying whey;casein ratios. Am J Clin Nutr 68:105-114, 1999.
• Darling, PB, Grunow, J, Rafii, M, Brookes, S, Ball, RO, Pencharz, PB. Threonine dehydrogenase is a minor degradative pathway of threonine catabolism in adult humans. Am J Physiol Endocrinology and Metabolism 278:E877-874, 2000.