Phenylalanine kinetics in healthy volunteers and liver cirrhotics: Implications for the phenylalanine breath test

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 283, Issue 6 46-6, 2002, Pages

  Tugtekin, I ^a   Wachter, U ^a   Barth, E ^a   Weidenbach, H ^a   Wagner, D A ^b   Adler, G ^a   Georgieff, M ^a   Radermacher, P ^a   Vogt, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b Metabolic Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

13CO2 recovery; Cirrhosis; Phenylalanine breath test; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHOLINESTERASE; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BREATH ANALYSIS; CALORIMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036889052     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.0311.2001     Document Type: Article

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