Oral glutamine and the healing of colonic anastomoses in rats

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 182-186

  Da Costa, Marco Aurelio Raeder ^a,b   Campos, Antonio Carlos L ^a,c   Coelho, Julio Cezar Uili ^a   De Barros, Andre Martins ^a   Matsumoto, Helim Minoru ^a   Grossie, Bruce ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; DENSITOMETRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0038372422     PISSN: 01486071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0148607103027003182     Document Type: Article

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