Nutrition
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 593-596 , July 2003

Development of gastric emptying in premature infants: Use of the 13C-octanoic acid breath test

  • Oldrich Pozler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Oldrich Pozler, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Teaching Hospital, 500 05 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
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  • David Neumann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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  • Viktor Vorisek, PharmD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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  • Josef Bukac, Ing, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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  • Jan Bures, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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  • Zdenek Kokstein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
    • Department of Biophysics; 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

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☆ This project was supported by grant NE 6164-3,IGA from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic.

PII: S0899-9007(03)00064-9

doi: 10.1016/S0899-9007(03)00064-9

Nutrition
Volume 19, Issue 7 , Pages 593-596 , July 2003

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