Effects of Major and Minor Surgery on Plasma Glutamine and Cytokine Levels

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 1237-1240

  Parry Billings, Mark ^a   Baigrie, Robert J ^b   Lamont, Peter M ^b   Morris, Peter J ^b   Newsholme, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; GLUTAMINE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; METABOLISM; MINOR SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GLUTAMATES; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINOR; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0026640061     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1992.01420100099017     Document Type: Article

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