Targeted Oral L-Glutamine Treatment of Grades 1, 2, and 3 Oral Mucositis in Adults with Diagnosed Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy Receiving 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU): A Feasibility Pilot Study

Targeted Oral L-Glutamine Treatment of Grades 1, 2, and 3 Oral Mucositis in Adults with Diagnosed Primary Gastrointestinal Malignancy Receiving 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU): A Feasibility Pilot Study

PurposeThe purpose of this pilot study was to explore nutritional injury in the context of oral mucositis (OM). It was a beginning look at oral L-glutamine (L-Gln) treatment efficacy through investigation of three "Reaction-to-Nutritional Injury" hypotheses defining OM as a localized sec...

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Main Author: Picchioni, Mary J.
Other Authors: Moore, Ida K.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
Subjects:
Absence of/Limited Nutritional Collateral Systems
Glutamine
Human Buccal Epithelial Cell Glutamine Synthetase
Nutritional Injury
Oral Mucositis
Reaction-to-Nutritional Injury
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194338

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