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Arginine possesses numerous unique and advantageous biochemical and pharmacologic properties. We have previously shown that arginine supplementation in an acute liver injury model reduces both the extent of the liver injury and bacterial translocation. We therefore studied the role of nitric oxide on the effects of oral arginine supplementation in acute liver injury, bacterial translocation, ileal and cecal mucosal nucleotides, and RNA and DNA, to investigate pathogenetic mechanisms.
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