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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
David A Mark, Oak Park, IL (US);
Gary Pace, Northfield, IL (US);
Assignee:
Clintec Nutrition Co., Deerfield, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514-2 ; 514561 ; 514565 ; 426-2 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods for providing nutritional requirements to a patient having a chronic inflammatory reaction by administering to the patient an enteral composition that has a sufficiently reduced arginine content to reduce the nitric oxide formation in the patient. In an embodiment, the composition includes less than approximately 0.2% of the total calories as arginine.