Aspartame pharmacokinetics - The effect of ageing

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 217-220

  Puthrasingam, S ^a   Heybroek, W M ^a   Johnston, A ^b   Maskrey, V ^a   Swift, C G ^a   Turner, P ^b   Abrams, S M L ^b   Jackson, S H D ^a  

^a Dulwich Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME; PHENYLALANINE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INGESTION; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA CLEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASPARTAME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; PHENYLALANINE; PILOT PROJECTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029876656     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.3.217     Document Type: Article

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