Plasma taurine in liver cirrhosis with painful muscle cramps

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 403, Issue , 1996, Pages 597-600

  Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAURINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MUSCLE CRAMP; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029909881     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0182-8_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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