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. 2014 Jun 21;20(23):7298–7305. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i23.7298

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Restoration of nutrition state and host immune responses by branched-chain amino acids in decompensated cirrhotic patients. Branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) oral supplementation could not only improve nutrition state (protein nutrition, energy nutrition) but restore host defense mechanisms [phagocytic function of neutrophils and natural killer (NK) cell activity] in cirrhotic patients.