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Safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of intravenous ghrelin for cancer-related anorexia/cachexia: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-crossover study

Twenty-one adult patients were randomised to receive ghrelin on days 1 and 8 and placebo on days 4 and 11 or vice versa, given intravenously over a 60-min period before lunch: 10 received 2 μg kg(−1) (lower-dose) ghrelin; 11 received 8 μg kg(−1) (upper-dose) ghrelin. Active and total ghrelin, growth...

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Autores principales: Strasser, F, Lutz, T A, Maeder, M T, Thuerlimann, B, Bueche, D, Tschöp, M, Kaufmann, K, Holst, B, Brändle, M, von Moos, R, Demmer, R, Cerny, T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18182992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6604148