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This 10 page paper outlines the biochemistry and role of glutamine and the way in which different organs react to changes such as infection creation a nutritional depletion on various cells disrupting different biophysical functions. The paper then considers how nutritionally supplements may or may not help to reduce the impact of glutamine. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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potential nutritional depletion and support of the gut and immune system. As gastrointestinal patient may be practically prone to infection this is an import are of consideration for the treatment
of these patients. An understanding of the role and changing patterns of glutamine in the body can therefore help increase the efficiently of treating patients with a range of conditions
including the gastrointestinal patient where gastrointestinal conditions may be a cause of a side effect of another condition, but who are at a risk.
Glutamine is used for a range of functions by the body, it is converted into glucose when the body needs energy, it is the source of fuel for
the cells that line the intestine without which the cells would waste away. In addition to this it is utilised by white body cells with the immune system and it
appears there may also be an anti-inflammatory function as this has been observed in animals (Souba, 1992). With these wide ranging and
important support functions it may not be surprising that glutamine is often given intravenously to patients who are critically ill in order to increases the chances of survival (Souba, 1992).
Glutamine is one of twenty amino acids and in the group of twelve none essential amino acid, it is the most prevalent amino acid in the human body making
up a total of 60% of the amino acid in the intercellular pool (Bergstr?m et al, 1974). The chemical compound of glutamine is H2N-C(=O)CH2CH2CH(NH2)COOH (Zamora, 2005). Like all amino acids,
with the exception of glycine in the amino group the carbon atom it attached to four dissimilar subsitituents (Zamora, 2005). The bond angles are tetrahedral and the attachments are asymmetrical,
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