Glutamine-enriched enteral nutrition in very low birth weight infants. Design of a double-blind randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN73254583]

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  van den Berg, Anemone ^a   van Elburg, Ruurd M ^a   Twisk, Jos W R ^b   Fetter, Willem P F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOKINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE; PLACEBO; STEROID; AMINO ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; LACTULOSE; MANNITOL;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FECES MICROFLORA; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INTESTINE ADAPTATION; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN INFECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TIME; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERMEABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMINO ACIDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; LACTULOSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MANNITOL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERMEABILITY; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12944252176     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-4-17     Document Type: Article

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