Gluconeogenesis in developing rat kidney cortex
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 111 (2), 181-185
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1110181
Abstract
1. Gluconeogenesis in developing rat kidney cortex was studied by assaying the activities of two enzymes, glucose 6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and by measuring glucose formation in tissue slices. 2. Glucose 6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase are present in late foetal (21–22-day-old) tissue and increase rapidly postnatally. Maximum activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase occurs at 7 days of age, followed by a decline to the adult level. Glucose 6-phosphatase activity rises during the first 2 postnatal weeks and then declines. 3. Late foetuses synthesize glucose from both pyruvate and l-glutamate. The rate increases during the first 2 weeks to above adult levels. Synthesis is always higher from pyruvate than from glutamate. 4. The effect of 24hr. starvation was studied in perinatal animals. The results indicate that the ability to increase the rate of glucose synthesis as a result of starvation is not present at birth, but develops some time after the second postnatal day.Keywords
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