How Is Lean Body Mass Conserved with the Very-Low Protein Diet Regimen?

Mineral and Electrolyte Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 54-57

  Maroni, Bradley J ^a   Tom, Karen ^b   Masud, Tahsin ^b   Chapman, Tom ^b   Young, Vernon R ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amino acids; Ketoacids; Leucine turnover; Nitrogen balance; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; DEUTERIUM; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; LEUCINE; OXOACID;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NITROGEN BALANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; BODY WEIGHT; CARBON ISOTOPES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEUTERIUM; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; KETO ACIDS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEUCINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN; PROTEINS; THINNESS;

EID: 0029655327     PISSN: 03780392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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