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Intravenous citrulline generation test to assess intestinal function in intensive care unit patients
BACKGROUND: Assessment of a quantifiable small intestinal function test is cumbersome. Fasting citrulline concentrations have been proposed as a measure of enterocyte function and elaborated into a citrulline generation test (CGT), which is applicable only when glutamine is administered orally. CGT...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5417678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28496350 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CEG.S121100 |