Glutamine Supplementation Attenuates Expressions of Adhesion Molecules and Chemokine Receptors on T Cells in a Murine Model of Acute Colitis

Table 1

Composition of the semipurified diets.

Component	Control diet	Gln diet
	g/kg
Soybean oil	100	100
Casein	200	150
Glutamine	0	41.7
Salt mixture^a	35	35
Vitamin mixture^b	10	10
Methyl cellulose	31	31
Choline bitartrate	2.5	2.5
Methionine	3	3
Corn starch	626.8	618.5

^aThe salt mixture contained the following (mg/g): calcium phosphate diabasic: 500; sodium chloride: 74; potassium sulfate: 52; potassium citrate monohydrate: 20; magnesium oxide: 24; manganese carbonate: 3.5; ferric citrate: 6; zinc carbonate: 1.6; curpric carbonate: 0.3; potassium iodate: 0.01; sodium selenite: 0.01; and chromium potassium sulfate: 0.55.
^bThe vitamin mixture contained the following (mg/g): thiamin hydrochloride: 0.6; riboflavin: 0.6; pyridoxine hydrochloride: 0.7; nicotinic acid: 3; calcium pantothenate: 1.6; D-biotin: 0.05; cyanocobalamin: 0.001; retinyl palmitate: 1.6; DL-𝛼-tocopherol acetate: 20; cholecalciferol: 0.25; and menaquinone: 0.005.