Uptake of dietary amino acids into arterial blood during continuous enteral feeding in critically ill patients and healthy subjects

• Published in: Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 912 - 918
• Main Authors: Liebau, Felix, Király, Emilie, Olsson, Daniel, Wernerman, Jan, Rooyackers, Olav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2021
• Subjects: adults; amino acid composition; Amino acid tracers; blood; clinical trials; Critical illness; enteral feeding; Enteral nutrition; essential amino acids; New Zealand; Nutritional support; patients; periodicity; phenylalanine; protein synthesis; New Zealand; AA; Critical illness; Amino acid tracers; Enteral nutrition; EAA; BW; Nutritional support; ICU; HPLC

Amino acid availability is a regulatory factor of protein anabolism and is partly dependent on enteral amino acid uptake. During continuous enteral feeding, enteral amino acid uptake may vary considerably, but this has not been documented systematically. In this pragmatic study, we investigated pati...