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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI102976

THE PLASMA “AMMONIA” AND GLUTAMINE CONTENT IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATIC COMA

J. Edwin Seegmiller, Robert Schwartz, and Charles S. Davidson

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services [Harvard], Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.

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On assignment from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, United States Public Health Service.

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This work was done under the sponsorship of the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by the office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, and in part by a grant from Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, N. J., to Harvard University.

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Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services [Harvard], Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.

2

On assignment from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, United States Public Health Service.

1

This work was done under the sponsorship of the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by the office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, and in part by a grant from Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, N. J., to Harvard University.

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Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services [Harvard], Boston City Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.

2

On assignment from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, United States Public Health Service.

1

This work was done under the sponsorship of the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by the office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, and in part by a grant from Merck and Company, Inc., Rahway, N. J., to Harvard University.

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Published July 1, 1954 - More info

Published in Volume 33, Issue 7 on July 1, 1954
J Clin Invest. 1954;33(7):984–988. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI102976.
© 1954 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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