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Serum carnitine as an independent biomarker of malnutrition in patients with impaired oral intake

Carnitine is a vitamin-like compound that plays important roles in fatty acid β-oxidation and the control of the mitochondrial coenzyme A/acetyl-CoA ratio. However, carnitine is not added to ordinary enteral nutrition or total parenteral nutrition. In this study, we determined the serum carnitine co...

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Autores principales: Iwamoto, Junichi, Honda, Akira, Miyamoto, Yasunori, Miyazaki, Teruo, Murakami, Masashi, Saito, Yoshifumi, Ikegami, Tadashi, Miyamoto, Jiro, Matsuzaki, Yasushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: the Society for Free Radical Research Japan 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4227833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25411530
http://dx.doi.org/10.3164/jcbn.14-77