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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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Autores principales: Peters, Job HC, Wierdsma, Nicolette J, Beishuizen, Albertus, Teerlink, Tom, van Bodegraven, Ad A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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