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Changes in plasma concentrations of free amino acids during and after the anhepaic period

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  1. Kazuo Irita

    Present address: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuoka, Japan

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  1. Surgical Operating Center, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 812, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hidefumi Inoue, Masahiro Umeki, Shogo Taniguchi & Kazuhisa Mazuda

  2. Blood Transfusion Service, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuoka, Japan

    Shoichi Inaba

  3. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hirotsugu Okamoto, Yoshiro Sakaguchi, Masae Yamakawa, Jun-ichi Yoshitake & Shosuke Takahashi

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Irita, K., Okamoto, H., Inoue, H. et al. Changes in plasma concentrations of free amino acids during and after the anhepaic period. J Anesth 7, 471–476 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/s0054030070471

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