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418621

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1978-7-15
pubmed:abstractText
This study intends to assess, by ion-exchange chromatography of free amino acid levels of peripheral blood plasma, the amino acid absorption of severely growth retarded infants with protracted diarrhoea, during the initial period of rehabilitation. Eleven infants from a very low socio-economic group of a developing country, with nutritional marasmic growth retardation and prolonged diarrhoea, were treated for a period of 10 days with a commercially available free amino acid--glucose diet (Vivonex, Pfrimmer Co., Erlangen, Germany). Excessive hyperprolinaemia characterized the plasma aminogram before treatment. After initial rehabilitation with this diet, the plasma analyses showed very low branch-chained and cystine levels, and marginally high alanine, glycine, and proline levels. It seemed that the free amino acids could not be absorbed quickly enough to meet with the high supply of glucose. Furthermore, this investigation supports the assumption that cystine is an essential amino acid in malnourished infants. In spite of normal or high human growth hormone levels, somatomedin was not detectable in pooled samples from these severely growth retarded infants.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0001-656X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
67
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
335-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
Plasma free amino acid levels during the initial rehabilitation of protein-energy malnutrtion with protracted diarrhoea using a free amino acid--glucose diet.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article