Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 37-44 , January 2003

Body temperature and heat production in suckling rat endotoxaemia: Beneficial effects of glutamine

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☆ Winner of the Peter Paul Rickham Prize at the 49th Annual Congress of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Cambridge, England, July 23-26, 2002.

☆☆ Supported by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Shane McGovern Trust Fund.

★ Address reprint requests to Simon Eaton, PhD, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Institute of Child Health, 30, Guilford St, London WCIN 1EH, England.

PII: S0022-3468(02)63014-3

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2003.50006

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 37-44 , January 2003

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