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Metabolic effects of glutamine on insulin sensitivity

@article{Molfino2010MetabolicEO,
  title={Metabolic effects of glutamine on insulin sensitivity},
  author={Alessio Molfino and Ferdinando Logorelli and Maurizio Muscaritoli and Antonia Cascino and Isabella Preziosa and Filippo Rossi Fanelli and Alessandro Laviano},
  journal={Nutritional therapy \& metabolism},
  year={2010},
  volume={28},
  pages={7-11}
}
Glutamine, the most abundant free amino acid in human plasma, has outstanding nutritional and non-nutritional properties. Glutamine regulates immune function and modulates cell metabolism. In particular, its administration showed a positive effect on glucose oxidation and on insulin resistance in different experimental and clinical studies. In humans, glutamine acts as both a substrate and modulator of its metabolism to glucose. In trauma patients and in critical illness, parenteral glutamine… 
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