Glutamine
Subtitle: physiology, biochemisty, and nutrition in critical illness
By: Wiley W. Souba.
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered)
Publisher: R.G. Landes; CRC Press [distributor]
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Austin; Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Glutamine -- Metabolism.; Glutamine -- physiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Physiologic and biochemical importance of glutamine; title: Major enzymes of intracellular glutamine metabolism; title: Transport of glutamine across mammalian cell membranes; title: Models used to study glutamine utilization and metabolism; title: Glutamine and the intestinal tract; title: Hepatic glutamine metabolism; title: Glutamine and the pancreas; title: Glutamine and the immune system; title: Lung glutamine metabolism; title: Glutamine metabolism in skeletal muscle; title: Glutamine metabolism by the brain; title: Glutamine and diabetes; title: Glutamine, fibroblasts, and wounds; title: Renal glutamine metabolism and the interorgan response to metabolic acidosis; title: Interorgan glutamine flow following surgical stress; title: Interorgan glutamine flow in sepsis; title: Interorgan glutamine flow in cancer; title: Use of glutamine-enriched nutrition.