Lysine requirements of moderately undernourished school-aged Indian children are reduced by treatment for intestinal parasites as measured by the indicator amino acid oxidation technique

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 954-959

  Pillai, Raja R ^a   Elango, Rajavel ^b   Ball, Ronald O ^c   Kurpad, Anura V ^a   Pencharz, Paul B ^b,d  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

IAAO; Intestinal parasites; Lysine; Requirement; Undernourished children

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; LYSINE; PHENYLALANINE C 13; TINIDAZOLE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CARBON; PHENYLALANINE;

AMEBIASIS; AMINO ACID OXIDATION TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBIASIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIASIS; INDIAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OXIDATION; PARASITOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TRICHURIASIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INDIA; INDICATOR DILUTION CURVE; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; LYSINE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENYLALANINE; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84929484494     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.208439     Document Type: Article

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