Perioperative oral glutamine supplementation increases total rupture strength and improves the percent area of mature collagen at the anastomoses sites on postoperative days 3 and 8.
In utero malnutrition decreases the abdominal wound strength of newborn rats but not the collagen deposition, suggesting that breast-feeding nutrition is effective in recovering the collagen deposition but not overall wound strength.
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