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Serum carnitine as a biomarker of sarcopenia and nutritional status in preoperative gastrointestinal cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is an important factor in the postoperative outcome of gastrointestinal cancer patients. However, little research has been carried out on potential biomarkers of sarcopenia. Carnitine is an amino acid derivative that is stored in skeletal muscle and is essential for muscle ene...

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Autores principales: Takagi, Akihiko, Hawke, Philip, Tokuda, Satoshi, Toda, Takeo, Higashizono, Kazuya, Nagai, Erina, Watanabe, Masaya, Nakatani, Eiji, Kanemoto, Hideyuki, Oba, Noriyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34939358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12906