Title : Effects of somatostatin on plasma ammonia and amino acid profile during fasting and after protein feeding in cirrhotic patients.

Pub. Date : 1986 Apr

PMID : 2873093






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1 The percent changes in ammonia and glutamine concentrations were inversely correlated (r = -80; p less than 0.001) After protein ingestion, somatostatin slowed the maximal plasma increase in ammonia and alpha-nitrogens by at least two hours, but their total 5 h plasma response was not reduced, and even, in some instances, significantly increased (valine, leucine, glutamine, alanine and serine) with respect to saline. alpha-nitrogens somatostatin Homo sapiens