Enteral administration of ornithine α-ketoglutarate or arginine α- ketoglutarate: A comparative study of their effects on glutamine pools in burn-injured rats

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 293-298

  Le Boucher, Jacques ^a   Coudray Lucas, Colette ^a   Lasnier, Elisabeth ^a   Jardel, Alain ^a   Ekindjian, Ovhanesse G ^a   Cynober, Luc A ^a,b  

^a UER des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

amino acids; arginine ketoglutarate; burn; enteral nutrition; glutamine; hypercatabolism; nutrition; ornithine ketoglutarate; rat; trauma; urea

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; ORNITHINE OXOGLUTARATE; OSMOLITE; UREA;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MIXTURE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HYPERMETABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; BODY WEIGHT; BURNS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GLUTAMINE; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; LIVER; MALE; ORNITHINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031034152     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199702000-00017     Document Type: Article

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