Prolonged continuous intravenous infusion of the dipeptide L-alanine- L-glutamine significantly increases plasma glutamine and alanine without elevating brain glutamate in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Nägeli, Mirjam ^a   Fasshauer, Mario ^a   Sommerfeld, Jutta ^a   Fendel, Angela ^a   Brandi, Giovanna ^a   Stover, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANYLGLUTAMINE; AMMONIA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LACTIC ACID; UREA; DIPEPTIDE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NITROGEN BALANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURIES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE; BRAIN INJURIES; DIPEPTIDES; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903402353     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13962     Document Type: Article

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