Glutamine is one of the twenty amino acids, the individual building blocks that join together to make up proteins in the body. Image Credit: Danijela Maksimovic / Shutterstock.com When a gene is ...

Let's begin by looking at what glutamine really is. It is the most important amino acid found in our body and yet a lot of us have very little or sometimes no knowledge at all about this extremely ...

Several studies have evaluated the benefit of oral or parenteral glutamine supplementation in cancer patients receiving chemo/radiotherapy, 1,2,3,4 including high-dose therapy (HDT) and stem cell ...

Blood stem cells develop through different stages to become fully mature red blood cells. This fundamental biologic process is defined by a series of complex metabolic processes, which are often ...

A study appearing in MedComm has been led by Dr. Jizong Zhao, Dr. Dong Zhang, and Dr. Peicong Ge (Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University and Department of ...

The consumption of the amino acid glutamine in cancer is somewhat of a conundrum. We know adequate glutamine levels are needed for ensuring nitrogen balance, maintaining gut integrity, and ...

Co-corresponding authors Jian Xu,PhD, (left) and Min Ni, PhD, (right) and co-first authors Junhua Lyu, PhD, (center left) and Yuannyu Zhang, PhD, (center right) identified and characterized a ...

A team headed by Prof. Massimiliano Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology), in collaboration with Dr. Emanuele Berardi and Dr. Min Shang, revealed a new metabolic dialogue between ...

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Glutamine synthetase plays a major role in ammonia detoxification, interorgan nitrogen flux, acid–base homeostasis, and cell signaling. We report on two unrelated newborns who had congenital human ...