{"product_id":"9781493919314","title":"Glutamine in Clinical Nutrition","description":"Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid and is a major contributor to whole body nitrogen metabolism and is considered to be “conditionally essential.”\u003ci\u003eGlutamine in Health and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e presents the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians and incorporates emerging fields of science and important discoveries. Section 1 covers glutamine structure and function, glutamine synthetase, glutamine binding protein, glutamine transport, glutamine-rich activation domains and transcription, glutamine transaminase and cell biochemistry. Section 2 covers glucose-independent glutamine metabolism, intestinal barrier function, thyroid-stimulating hormone, glutamine resonances, focal ischemia, plasma glutamine, metabolic stress, cancer and absorption. Section 3 covers dipeptide-bound glutamine, DNA protection, oxidative stress, NF-KB, the inflammatory response, the lung, kidney, GI tract and liver, autophagy, ethanol and diabetes.Finally, Section 4 covers the use of glutamine in preoperative states, enteral and parenteral nutrition, pulmonary infections, cancer, hypoxic injury, arginyl-glutamine, paediatrics, pancreatic surgery, the elderly, gastric emptying gastric bypass and use glutamine cocktails.Written byauthors of international and national standing, leaders in the field and trendsetters, \u003ci\u003eGlutamine in Health and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for nutritionists and dietitians, public health scientists, physicians, epidemiologists, policy makers, and health care professionals of various disciplines.","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028680556784,"sku":"9781493919314","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493919314_p0.jpg?v=1763664187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493919314","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}