Total parenteral nutrition enriched with arginine and glutamate generates glutamine and limits protein catabolism in surgical patients hospitalized in intensive care units

Abstract

Total parenteral nutrition enriched with arginine and glutamate promotes a better nitrogen balance, limits protein myofibrillar catabolism, and generates glutamine, with arginine (not glutamate) probably being the main contributor to the glutamine-generating effect of the solution through the formation of ornithine.