Pathophysiology of cancer cachexia
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Ulrich Keller
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Article
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1993
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Patients with advanced cancer and cachexia typically demonstrate modestly increased rates of energy expenditure in the presence of diminished food intake due to anorexia and to gastrointestinal disturbances. Rates of glucose production by the liver, gluconeogenesis and glycolysis to lactate (Coil cy