Pharmaceutical Point of View on Parenteral Nutrition

Table 1

Composition of some amino acid solutions.

	Aminoplasmal 10%	Aminoplasmal HEPA	Aminomel 10%	Aminosteril 10%	Aminosteril N-Hepa	Aminoven infant 10%	Nephrotect	Primene 10%	Vamin 14	Vaminolact
	[g/1000 mL]
Isoleucine	8.9	8.8	5.85	4.67	10.4	8.0	5.8	6.7	4.2	3.1
Leucine	5.0	13.6	6.24	7.06	13.09	13.0	12.8	10.0	5.9	7.0
Lysine acetate		10.6	10.02		9.71		16.9
Methionine	4.4	1.2	4.68	4.1	1.1	3.12	2	2.4	4.2	1.3
Phenylalanine	4.7	1.6	5.4	4.82	0.88	3.75	3.5	4.2	5.9	2.7
Threonine	4.2	4.6	5.0	4.21	4.4	4.4	8.2	3.7	4.2	3.6
Tryptophan	1.6	1.5	2.0	1.82	0.7	2.01	3.0	2.0	1.4	1.4
Valine	6.2	10.6	5.0	5.92	10.08	9	8.7	7.6	5.5	3.6
Arginine	11.5	8.8	9.66	10.64	10.72	7.5	8.2	8.4	8.4	4.1
Histidine	3.0	4.7	3.3	2.88	2.8	4.76	9.8	3.8	5.1	2.1
Glycine	12.0	6.3	7.55	15.95	5.82	4.15	5.31	4.0	5.9	2.1
Alanine	10.5	8.3	15.5	15.0	4.64	9.3	6.2	8.0	12	6.3
Proline	5.5	7.1	7.5	15.0	5.73	9.71	3.0	3.0	5.1	5.6
Aspartic acid	5.6	2.5	1.91					6.0	2.5	4.1
Asparagine		0.55
Acetylcysteine		0.8	0.67		0.7		0.54
Glutamic acid	7.2	5.7	5.0					10	4.2	7.1
Serine	2.3	3.7	4.3		2.24	7.67	7.6	4.0	3.4	3.8
Acetyl tyrosine		0.86	2.0
Tyrosine	0.4					4.2	0.6	0.45	0.17	0.5
Lysine	8.56			7.46		8.51		11	6.8	5.6
Taurine						0.4		0.6		0.3
Cysteine						0.52		2.46	0.42	1.0
N-glycyl-L-tyrosine							3.16
Ornithine		1.66	2.42					2.49
Cystine									0.42	1.0