Efficacy of glutamine in the prevention of acute radiation enteritis: A randomized controlled trial

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-213

  Vidal Casariego, Alfonso ^a   Calleja Fernández, Alicia ^a   De Urbina González, Juan José Ortiz ^a   Cano Rodríguez, Isidoro ^a   Cordido, Fernando ^b,c   Ballesteros Pomar, María D ^a  

^a Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

acute radiation enteritis; calprotectin; citrulline; glutamine; nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; CASEIN; CITRULLINE; FERRITIN; GLUTAMINA NM; GLUTAMINE; LOPERAMIDE; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; ENTERITIS; INTESTINE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CITRULLINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84893027561     PISSN: 01486071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0148607113478191     Document Type: Article

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