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Increased glycine absorption rate associated with acute bacterial infections in man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

G. C. Cook
G. C. Cook
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The University of Zambia, P.O. Box 2379, Lusaka, Zambia
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1. Glycine absorption rate from a 300 mm jejunal segment was determined in vivo in four Zambian African subjects with acute, and four with chronic, respiratory infections. Glycine solutions (100, 150 and 250 mmol/l) were perfused, by means of a double-lumen tube technique. The results were compared with those for four relatively normal Zambian African subjects (‘reference’ group) previously studied. The group with acute-infections had a significantly higher mean absorption rate than the reference or chronic-infection group.

2. Glycine absorption results from a 100 mmol/l glycine solution in an additional twenty-four Zambian African subjects have also been analysed. When results for the thirty-six subjects were combined, those with acute bacterial infections had a significantly higher mean absorption rate than the normal subjects or those with chronic infections. For the twenty-one normal subjects there was a significant positive correlation between the individual absorption rates and serum total globulin and γ-globulin concentrations.

3. It seems likely that the rapid catabolism of protein associated with infection is counteracted by an increase in amino acid absorption rate. In subjects on a low-protein diet that mechanism would be limited. The deterioration in nutritional status during infections in developing countries could therefore be partly explained by the present observation.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 377 - 386
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1973

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