We also ask whether it is possible to control glycemia during such a treatment and how alanylglutamine (AG) supplementation influences plasma glutamine concentration.
To determine the relationship between adding glutamine dipeptides to parenteral nutrition (PN) and morbimortality in the critically ill patient.
Studies in animal models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suggest that supplementation of total parenteral nutrition with glutamine (gln) , a conditionally essential amino acid in catabolic conditions , increases gln plasma concentrations , reduces intestinal damage , improves nitrogen balance and may improve the course of the disease.
Surrogate markers of bowel inflammation are increasingly being recognized as important , not only as markers of disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but also to differentiate irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) from IBD.