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Experiments with young mammals have indicated that renal arginine synthesis is a major endogenous source of this amino acid. The kidney readily synthesizes arginine from intestinally derived citrulline, which is produced from glutamate, the so-called intestinal-renal axis. The present experiment was conducted to ascertain whether or not citrulline and arginine are synthesized in channel catfish via...