Nutritional treatment of cancer cachexia in rats
✍ Scribed by Olga Cremades; Juan Parrado; María Jover; Laura Collantes de Terán; Juan Francisco Gutiérrez; Juan D. Bautista Palomas
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 359 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1436-6207
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Cancer cachexia is highly prevalent in patients with advanced cancer. Its main clinical manifestation is profound anorexia. Progestational drugs have shown meaningful effects on appetite, food intake, and nutritional status in patients with advanced cancer and AIDS, and could be useful in managing a
## BACKGROUND. Imbalanced amino acid diets in animals rapidly produce anorexia and weight loss. Blockade of type 3 serotonergic receptors (5HT 3 ) can ameliorate anorexia in this animal model. Imbalanced plasma amino acid levels also have been documented in both animal models and human patients wit