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pubmed:abstractText |
Measurements of whole-body energy expenditure, body composition, and in-vivo metabolic fluxes are required to quantitatively understand involuntary weight loss in cancer cachexia. Such studies are rare because cancer cachexia occurs near the end of life when invasive metabolic tests may be precluded. Thus, models of cancer-associated weight loss are an important tool for helping to understand this debilitating condition.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5621, USA. kevinh@niddk.nih.gov
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Journal Article,
Review,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't,
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
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