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Vitamin
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Carpenter K

Vitamin, any of several organic substances that are necessary in small quantities for normal health and growth in higher forms of animal life. Vitamins are distinct in several ways from other biologically important compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Although these latter substances also are indispensable for proper bodily functions, almost all of them can be synthesized by a…

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Nutritional Support for Wound Healing
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MacKay D

Healing of wounds, whether from accidental injury or surgical intervention, involves the activity of an intricate network of blood cells, tissue types, cytokines, and growth factors. This results in increased cellular activity, which causes an intensified metabolic demand for nutrients. Nutritional deficiencies can impede wound healing, and several nutritional factors required for wound repair…

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The Nutritional Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Cirrhos…
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Amodio P

The assessment of nutritional status in patients with cirrhosis is problematic. In addition there are significant sex-related differences in body composition and in the characteristics of tissue loss which limit the usefulness of techniques based on measures of muscle mass and function in women. Techniques which combine subjective and objective variables provide reasonably accurate information…

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Wound Healing in Mammals and Amphibians: Toward Limb Regeneration in Mammals
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Kawasumi A

Mammalian fetal skin regenerates perfectly, but adult skin repairs by the formation of scar tissue. The cause of this imperfect repair by adult skin is not understood. In contrast, wounded adult amphibian (urodeles and anurans) skin is like mammalian fetal skin in that it repairs by regeneration, not scarring. Scar-free wound repair in adult Xenopus is associated with expression of the paired …

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