Oral ornithine a-ketoglutarate accelerates healing of the small intestine and reduces bacterial translocation after abdominal radiation

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-33

  Kalfarentzos, F ^a,b   Spiliotis, J ^a   Melachrinou, M ^a   Katsarou, Ch ^a   Spiliopoulou, I ^a   Panagopoulos, C ^a   Alexandrides, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCINE; ORNITHINE OXOGLUTARATE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; HEALING; ILEUM; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE VILLUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIATION INJURY; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE;

EID: 0030042772     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5614(96)80258-5     Document Type: Review

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