Abstract
Glutamine (GLN) is a conditionally essential nutrient during sepsis or trauma [1]. GLN is the most abundant amino acid in plasma and skeletal muscle. However, GLN levels fall dramatically after major injury or infection [2]. GLN supplementation in patients submitted to elective surgery attenuates the negative postoperative nitrogen balance, diminishing the dive in intracellular concentration of the amino acid in skeletal muscle and enhancing the synthesis of muscle protein [3, 4].
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