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Amino acid concentrations in blood of patients with an acute myocardial infarction

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Levels of essential and nonessential amino acids in blood of patients with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were found in general not to differ from values obtained from non-AMI patients. This is in contrast to blood taurine levels which are elevated in the AMI patients.

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  1. Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 79430, Lubbock, Texas, USA

    M. Wayne Cooper & J. B. Lombardini

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Cooper, M.W., Lombardini, J.B. Amino acid concentrations in blood of patients with an acute myocardial infarction. Experientia 38, 1079–1080 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01955378

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