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“The accompanying increases in ornithine and arginine concentration are likely to contribute to increased flux through the polyamine and nitric oxide biosynthetic pathways in vivo.”
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology • 2001 | View Paper
“Because NO inhibits cell division, while ornithine can stimulate cell division (via polyamines), these results also indicate that M-1 and M-2 responses can influence inflammatory reactions in opposite ways.”