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  • Title: Albumin and fibrinogen syntheses increase while muscle protein synthesis decreases in head-injured patients.
    Author: Mansoor O, Cayol M, Gachon P, Boirie Y, Schoeffler P, Obled C, Beaufrère B.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1997 Nov; 273(5):E898-902. PubMed ID: 9374674.
    Abstract:
    The effect of trauma on protein metabolism was investigated in the whole body, muscle, and liver in severely head-injured patients presenting an acute inflammatory response by comparison to fed control subjects receiving a similar diet. Nonoxidative leucine disposal (an index of whole body protein synthesis) and muscle, albumin, and fibrinogen synthesis were determined by means of a primed, continuous infusion of L-[1-13C]leucine. Nonoxidative leucine disposal increased by 28% in the patients (P < 0.02). Fractional muscle protein synthesis rate decreased by 50% (P < 0.01) after injury. Fractional and absolute fibrinogen synthesis rates were multiplied by two and nine, respectively, after injury (P < 0.001). Albumin levels were lower in patients (25.2 +/- 1.2 g/l, means +/- SE) than in controls (33.7 +/- 1.2 g/l, P < 0.001). However, fractional albumin synthesis rates were increased by 60% in patients (11.4 +/- 1.0%/day) compared with controls (7.3 +/- 0.4%/day, P < 0.01). Therefore, 1) head trauma induces opposite and large changes of protein synthesis in muscle and acute-phase hepatic proteins, probably mediated by cytokines, glucocorticoids, and other stress hormones, and 2) in these patients, hypoalbuminemia is not due to a depressed albumin synthesis.
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