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The role of GLN in ammonia detoxification in liver failure. In liver failure, ammonia escapes the urea cycle and is detoxified to GLN in the brain, skeletal muscle, and lungs. Enhanced GLN availability leads to enhanced GLN catabolism to ammonia in enterocytes and the kidneys. Thus GLN-ammonia cycling among tissues is activated. PSS Portal-systemic shunts
