Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 375-381, April 2010

The safety of oral use of l-glutamine in middle-aged and elderly individuals

  • Siulmara Cristina Galera, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-85-3366-9063; fax: +55-85-3366-8064.
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  • FranciscoVagnaldo Fechine, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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  • Maria Jânia Teixeira, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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  • Zirlane Castelo Branco Coelho, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Toxicologic Laboratory, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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  • Raquel Cavalcante de Vasconcelos

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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  • Paulo Roberto Leitão de Vasconcelos, M.D., D.Phil.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Received 8 December 2008; accepted 16 May 2009. published online 18 September 2009.

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 The present study was supported by a grant from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, process no. 505304/04, and by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Ministério da Educação, Brazil.

PII: S0899-9007(09)00231-7

doi:10.1016/j.nut.2009.05.013

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 375-381, April 2010

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