Glutamine : physiology, biochemistry and nutrition in critical illness /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
R.G. Landes,
1992.
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| Series: | Medical intelligence unit.
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Table of Contents:
- Physiologic and biochemical importance of glutamine
- Major enzymes of intracellular glutamine metabolism
- Transport of glutamine across mammalian cell membranes
- Models used to study glutamine utilization and metabolism
- Glutamine and the intestinal tract
- Hepatic glutamine metabolism
- Glutamine and the pancreas
- Glutamine and the immune system
- Lung glutamine metabolism
- Glutamine metabolism in skeletal muscle
- Glutamine metabolism by the brain
- Glutamine and diabetes
- Glutamine, fibroblasts, and wounds
- Renal glutamine metabolism and the interorgan response to metabolic acidosis
- Interorgan glutamine flow following surgical stress
- Interorgan glutamine flow in sepsis
- Interorgan glutamine flow in cancer
- Use of glutamine-enriched nutrition.