Is stress insulin resistance a marker for mortality in traumatic brain injury?
Nonsurvivors with TBI have significantly higher markers of IR (insulin rate and multiplier). Markers of glucose control (median glucose, hypoglycemic episodes, and the percentage of values in range) did not differ clinically among groups. Despite this stress IR, tight glycemic control appears possible and safe with low levels of hypoglycemic episodes in the TBI population.
These data suggest that: (1) large doses of (Phi)B deplete plasma Gln in fasted rats, regardless of age, (2) Gln depletion induced by Phi)B does not alter GS activity.