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L-arginine stimulates host defenses in patients with breast cancer.
Surgery - 1 Feb 1994
Brittenden J, Park K G, Heys S D, Ross C, Ashby J, Ah-See A k, Eremin O
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BACKGROUND: The amino acid L-arginine is known to have immunostimulatory effects in animals and healthy human volunteers. We have studied the effect of dietary supplementation with L-arginine (30 gm/day for 3 days) on host defenses in patients with breast cancer. METHODS: Mitogenic responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes to concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin, and pokeweed mitogen and phenotype analysis of...
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