... rates in preterm infants than in adults). This is probably correlated with the fact that RNA is intimately involved in all steps of protein synthesis. adults N 2 N 2 -dimethylguanosine messenger RNA 7-methylguanine premature infants pseudouridine ribonucleic acid ribosomal RNA transfer...

... and capacity, were observed in different groups of subjects. Sig- nificantly lower concentrations were found in adults and in pre-term and stillborn infants than in older infants and children. Key words: age, brown adipose tissue, mitochon- drion, premature infants, radioimmunoassay, thermogenesis, uncoupling...

... body protein synthesis and degradation were shown to be 11.32 (±0.78) and 9.54 (±0.55) g day −1 kg −1 . 26 7 1983 2 8 1983 © 1984 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1984 human milk leucine premature infants protein metabolism Clinical Science (1984) 66...