... and an increased metabolic clearance rate caused by the alkalaemia. 3. Leucine concentration was increased after the ketone infusion due to a small increase in production rate and there was a small increase in the rate of leucine incorporation into protein. Alkalaemia had no effect on leucine concentration...

...Robert J. Mairs; Josie A. Beeley 1. Isoelectric focusing of parotid saliva from 33 patients with rheumatoid arthritis but without clinical evidence of salivary gland involvement revealed multiple abnormal proteins of pI 3.95–4.25 in all cases, whereas only two out of 16 samples from normal healthy...