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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103556

Biochemical Changes in Liver Associated with Kwashiorkor

Helen B. Burch, Guillermo Arroyave, Ruth Schwartz, Ana Maria Padilla, Moisés Béhar, Fernando Viteri, and Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Department of Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemela

2

Pan American Sanitary Bureau Consultant to INCAP from July 28 to September 9, 1956.

3

Staff members of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP).

4

Fellow of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

1

This investigation was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, The Williams-Waterman Fund for the Combat of Dietary Diseases, the Nutrition Foundation, Inc., and National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (A-981), Public Health Service. Reported in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Biological Chemists, April, 1957. INCAP Scientific Publication I-86.

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Published November 1, 1957 - More info

Published in Volume 36, Issue 11 on November 1, 1957
J Clin Invest. 1957;36(11):1579–1587. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103556.
© 1957 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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