Parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis in neonates: multivariate analysis of the potential protective effect of taurine.

Ariel U, Spencer,; Sunkyung, Yu,; Thomas F, Tracy,; Moustafa M, Aouthmany,; Adolfo, Llanos,; Morton B, Brown,; Marilyn, Brown,; Robert J, Shulman,; Ronald B, Hirschl,; Patricia A, Derusso,; Jean, Cox,; Jacqueline, Dahlgren,; Peter J, Strouse,; Jonathan I, Groner,; Daniel H, Teitelbaum,

doi:10.1177/0148607105029005337

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Parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis in neonates: multivariate analysis of the potential protective effect of taurine.

Published in JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition • Jan 1, 2005

Authors:

Spencer, Ariel U

Yu, Sunkyung

Tracy, Thomas F

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Neonates receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) are at risk for PN-associated cholestasis (PNAC); however, no preventive factors for PNAC have been clearly identified. Despite reports suggesting that taurine may prevent PNAC in neonates, such an effect of taurine has not yet been definitive...

Subject

Bilirubin

Cholagogues and Choleretics

Cholecystokinin

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