kwashiorkor/tyrosine

Plasma free amino acids were determined in the plasma of severely malnourished children under two years of age. A total of thirty-one patients and eleven controls were evaluated: seventeen cases of kwashiorkor, eight cases of marasmus, and six cases of marasmic-kwashiorkor. Fasting plasma samples

There are many reports documenting modifications of different plasma components in undenutrition, including the protein-calorie (marasmus) or the protein deficiency (kwashiorkor) subtypes. However, there is no detailed study on the effect of undernutrition on plasma amino acid pattern during the

To test the hypothesis that kwashiorkor is associated with increased oxidative stress, urinary concentrations of 2 oxidized amino acids, o,o '-dityrosine and ortho -tyrosine, were measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Children with kwashiorkor, with or without infection, had a 3- to

Homogenates of placental villi were obtained from normotensive pregnancies and from pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia and growth retardation. The homogenates were analysed for free amino acid concentrations using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The study shows that there are

Protein-energy malnutrition, a multi-factorial disease, has been described predominantly in the infant. It was the aim of this research to give a biochemical assessment of the adult form and to compare it to the infantile syndrome within the same socio-cultural context of central Zaïre (Kwilu

Concentrations of amino acids in plasma and whole blood in response to 10 hours of food deprivation were determined in healthy 2-day-old foals (n = 8) and were compared with control values in foals of the same age (n = 8) allowed free access to suckle. In addition, response of concentrations of