Figure 3From: Prolonged continuous intravenous infusion of the dipeptide L-alanine- L-glutamine significantly increases plasma glutamine and alanine without elevating brain glutamate in patients with severe traumatic brain injury Changes in plasma alanine during the 24-hour and 5-day L- alanine-L-glutamine infusion phase. During the infusion phase plasma alanine was significantly increased compared to baseline values (*p <0.001, analysis of variance, post hoc Dunn’s test), which was mostly sustained during the 5-day infusion phase compared to the 24-hour infusion (+ P<0.001). Although elevated plasma alanine levels reached baseline values following the 24-hour infusion phase, plasma alanine levels remained increased following the 5-day infusion phase. Back to article page