L-Glutamine and Improved Chemotherapy Sensitivity

• Glutamine and cancer: metabolism, immune microenvironment, and therapeutic targets.

  • 2025-01-24
  • Review
  • Cell communication and signaling : CCS 23(1)
  • • Ding Nan
    • Weiping Yao
    • Luanluan Huang
    • Ruiqi Liu
    • Xiaoyan Chen
    • Wenjie Xia
    • Hailong Sheng
    • Haibo Zhang
    • Xiaodong Liang
    • Yanwei Lu

  • PubMed: 39856712
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12964-024-02018-6

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Chemotherapy Sensitivity

  • Low evidence

  Oral supplementation with glutamine also enhances the immune capabilities of cancer patients, improves the sensitivity to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and improves prognosis.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  supplementation (dose not specified in abstract)