Enternal administration of arginine and glutamine for abnormal vascular proliferation

摘要

The subject invention provides a method and compositions for preventing and/or treating abnormal vascular proliferation in a human infant where the method involves enterally administering arginine and glutamine to the infant in about equimolar amounts to provide a total amount of arginine and glutamine that is effective to prevent or treat the abnormal vascular proliferation. Arginyl-glutamine dipeptide was shown to be an advantageous form in which to provide the two amino acids.