glutamine/fever

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the effect of fever-range hyperthermia on Gln-starving monocytes and the role of the 70-kDa heat shock protein Hsp70. BACKGROUND Fever is a protective acute-phase response to infection. However, in critically ill patients, the harmful effects of fever seem to be

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a viral disease. There is not enough knowledge about plasma amino acid levels in CCHF. Therefore, we investigated of plasma amino acids levels in patients with CCHF and the association between the levels of these amino acids and disease severity. The plasma

Pharmacokinetic responses to oral doses of the dipeptide, L-alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln), were evaluated after a single, bolus load or an intermittent dosing in normal healthy subjects (n = 8) to find the optimal mode of oral administration. In a subgroup (n = 4) of the healthy subjects, the influence

Although there are a number of physiological states associated with an increase in body temperature, eg, nonseptic and septic fever or exercise, the effects of hyperthermia on intermediary metabolism in vivo have received little attention. The current study was undertaken to examine the peripheral

First reported formally in 1980, the frequent ability of infectious fever to relieve autistic behavior, often dramatically (and rarely aggravate), has long tantalized parents, practitioners, and researchers - yet its physiology and biochemistry have never been investigated, to judge from the

No pharmacologic agent has shown benefit in treating heatstroke. Previous data indicate that enhanced heat shock protein 70 (HSP-70) expression can improve survival postexperimental heatstroke. Glutamine (GLN) can enhance HSP-70 expression in other injury models. This study assessed if orally

Trent, Dennis W. (University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City), and L. Vernon Scott. Colorado tick fever virus in cell culture. II. Physical and chemical properties. J. Bacteriol. 91:1282-1288. 1966.-Heat-inactivation kinetics for Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus grown in L cells

Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and other cytokines produce fever by stimulating prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) synthesis in thermoregulatory regions of the preoptic area and anterior hypothalamus (POA/AH). Prostaglandin E(2) is thought to raise body temperature, at least in part, by stimulating

How the obligatory intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia chaffeensis begins to replicate upon entry into human monocytes is poorly understood. Here, we examined the potential role of amino acids in initiating intracellular replication. PutA converts proline to glutamate, and GlnA converts glutamate to

BACKGROUND Glutamine-supplemented total parenteral nutrition (TPN) improved the nitrogen balance in catabolic situations. In animal studies, parenteral glutamine supplementation appeared to maintain gut integrity. This study was performed to evaluate the possible positive effects of glutamine

HSCT associated morbidity and mortality is usually attributed to high-dose chemotherapy/radiotherapy regimens used for conditioning. Glutamine (Gln), a conditionally essential amino acid during severe catabolic states, has been shown to have favorable effects in patients with malignancies and in

The vole agent described by Baker in 1946 was studied as an example of a bacterium that has been mistakenly regarded a rickettsia. Unlike rickettsiae, the vole agent killed chicken embryos with great irregularity, multipled primarily at the surface of avian or mammalian cells and not

The cytotoxicity of cisplatin, applied alone or in combination with hyperthermia, to mouse mammary adenocarcinoma cells (M8013S) was studied with the cells either treated in medium [Eagle's minimum essential medium (MEM), supplemented with 10% foetal bovine serum, 100 IU/ml penicillin, 200 mM

Spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1) results from pathologic glutamine expansion in the ataxin-1 protein (ATXN1). This misfolded ATXN1 causes severe Purkinje cell (PC) loss and cerebellar ataxia in both humans and mice with the SCA1 disease. The molecular chaperone heat-shock proteins (HSPs) are known to

OBJECTIVE To determine whether glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition improves nitrogen retention and reduces hospital morbidity compared with standard parenteral nutrition after bone marrow transplantation. METHODS Double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial. METHODS University