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Effects of Hypercaloric Glucose Infusion on Lipid Metabolism in Injury and Sepsis

DOI

126

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0

References

1979

Year

Yvon Carpentier, J. Askanazi, David H. Elwyn, Malayappa Jeevanandam, Frank E. Gump, Allen I. Hyman, Robert E. Burr, John M. Kinney
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Abstract

1) GTO was elevated two to three times the normal range in injury and infection; plasma glycerol concentration was not related to GTO. 2) In face of high catecholamine output, the insulin response to TPN did not inhibit TG breakdown but did decrease plasma ketone body concentrations.