The anabolic effects of recombinant human growth hormone and glutamine on parenterally fed, short bowel rats

Table 2 Body composition of short-bowel rats maintained with PN and given rhGH and/or Gln

	Carcass Water		Carcass Fat		Carcass Protein
	g	%	g	%	g	%
-rhGH
-Gln	74.4 ± 9.9	66.9 ± 3.8	8.5 ± 3.9	9.2 ± 3.7	17.9 ± 3.2	16.4 ± 2.4
+Gln	71.0 ± 12.9	68.8 ± 3.4	6.0 ± 1.7	6.3 ± 2.0	18.2 ± 2.5	17.8 ± 3.0
+rhGH
-Gln	76.5 ± 14.5	71.0 ± 6.2	5.4 ± 2.3	6.0 ± 2.6	22.2 ± 3.0	20.8 ± 4.0
+Gln	65.1 ± 3.2	68.9 ± 1.0	4.7 ± 1.5a	4.4 ± 1.5	20.3 ± 3.1	21.3 ± 2.4
Ref.	77.7 ± 2.3	73.1 ± 1.0	7.2 ± 1.7	7.6 ± 1.9	18.0 ± 1.8	16.9 ± 1.5
two-way ANOVA
Gln	NS	NS	0.0332	NS	NS	NS
rhGH	NS	NS	0.0153	0.0296	0.0134	0.0035
Gln + rhGH	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS

^aP < 0.05 vs rats with PN alone, Gln-supplemented PN and reference rats. Reference group was not included in 2-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).