Glutamine : physiology, biochemistry and nutrition in critical illness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Souba, Wiley W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : R.G. Landes, 1992.
Series:Medical intelligence unit.
Subjects:
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.