Title: Glutamine : physiology, biochemisty, and nutrition in critical illness /
Authors: Souba, Wiley W.
Publisher: R.G. Landes ; CRC Press [distributor],
Year: 1992
Subjects: Glutamine Metabolism.; Glutamine physiology
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.