Amino acid nutrition and immune function in tumour-bearing rats: A comparison of glutamine, arginine- and ornithine 2-oxoglutarate-supplemented diets

Clinical Science

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 657-669

  Robinson, Lindsay E ^a   Bussière, Françoise I ^a   Le Boucher, Jacques ^b   Farges, Marie Chantal ^c   Cynober, Luc A ^b,c   Field, Catherine J ^a   Baracos, Vickie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Anti tumour immune defence; Arginine; Cancer; Cytokines; Cytotoxicity; Glutamine; Macrophages; Nitric oxide; Ornithine 2 oxoglutarate; Splenocytes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CD23 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; ORNITHINE OXOGLUTARATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOSTASIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MORRIS HEPATOMA; MUSCLE LEVEL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLEEN CELL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SUPERINFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0033374890     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0970657     Document Type: Article

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