in these normally nourished patients serum transferrin ( plus 13 mg./dl . minus 30 mg./dl. , minus 69 mg./dl. , p less than 0.05 for the first and combined amino acid groups against the third group ) and 2 other short half-life hepatic secretory proteins , prealbumin and retinol-binding protein , represented sensitive indexes of visceral protein and nutritional support , superior to nitrogen balance , anthropometric assays , delayed hypersensitivity skin test reactivity and serum albumin .
C0032923
prealbumin
C0036773
serum albumin