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Serial plasma aminoacids were estimated in the breast fed and artificially fed neonates for the first three months of life. It was observed that with increasing postnatal age, the plasma level of valine and alanine increased, cystine, threonine and tyrosine remained almost the same and arginine and glycine decreased in the artificially fed as well as breast fed infants. However, the plasma phenylalanine levels kept increasing in the artificially fed infants. The levels of all the individual aminoacids were higher in the artificially fed infants. These high levels of aminoacids in the artificially fed infants may even be harmful, suggesting thereby unsuitability of high protein milk in early infancy.
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Misra, P.K., Awasthi, S., Malik, G.K. et al. Aminoacid pattern in breast versus artificially fed babies. Indian J Pediatr 54, 689–694 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02751281
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