Nutritional Requirement for Taurine in Patients Receiving Long-Term Parenteral Nutrition
- 17 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 312 (3) , 142-146
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198501173120302
Abstract
Animals fed diets lacking the amino acid taurine have low plasma and tissue levels of taurine and ultimately have retinal dysfunction. Since parenteral nutrition does not ordinarily provide taurine, we looked for evidence of taurine deficiency in 21 children and 23 adults undergoing long-term parenteral nutrition at home for an average of 27±23 (S.D.) months.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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