Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis and the Clinical Applications of Bile Acids in Prevention of the Disease

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the gastrointestinal disease responsible for the most deaths of premature infants. This honors thesis looks at the role of bile acids in NEC through analyzing bile acid concentration in neonatal stool samples. Subjects were enrolled from the neonatal inten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romo, Ryan Elisabeth
Other Authors: Halpern, Melissa
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579407