Glutamine: The first clinically relevant pharmacological regulator of heat shock protein expression?

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-206

  Wischmeyer, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Heat shock factor; Heat shock protein 70; Infection; Molecular mechanism; Mortality; Nutritional pharmacology

Indexed keywords

ALANYLGLUTAMINE; GLUTAMINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 32; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMINE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; STRESS;

EID: 33746209054     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 15353885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mco.0000222100.44256.6b     Document Type: Review

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