Abstract
Summary
Healthy starving dogs subjected to a single severe hemorrhage revealed a much more striking regeneration of serum protein in 6 and 24 hours when treated by intravenous injection of a complete mixture of aminoacids and glucose than of glucose alone. The findings suggest that the aminoacids introduced in this way are utilized in the regeneration of serum protein. Clinical observations in patients unable to take protein by mouth have given similar results; nitrogen balance observations on them as well as on animals are now being carried out.
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