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CLIN. CHEM. 40/5, 785-789 (1994) #{149} General Clinical Chemistry

Changes in Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in Response to HIV-1 Infection Glen L. Hortin,”4

Michael

Landt,2

and William

G. Powderly’

Plasma concentrationsof 21 amino acids were determined for 20 control subjects and 20 subjects infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV). Compared with the

controlsubjects,the HIV-infected group had lower cystine, tryptophan, and methionine (decreased 67%, 52%, and 32%, respectively, P