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Effects of semielemental diet containing whey peptides on Peyer's patch lymphocyte number, immunoglobulin A levels, and intestinal morphology in mice.
The Journal of surgical research - 1 Feb 2018
Moriya Tomoyuki, Fukatsu Kazuhiko, Noguchi Midori, Nishikawa Makoto, Miyazaki Hiromi, Saitoh Daizoh, Ueno Hideki, Yamamoto Junji
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BACKGROUND: Enteral nutrition (EN) is the gold standard of nutritional therapy for critically ill or severely injured patients, because EN promotes gut and hepatic immunity, thereby preventing infectious complications as compared with parenteral nutrition. However, there are many EN formulas with different protein and fat contents. Their effects on gut-associated lymphoid tissue remain unclear. Recently,...
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