Induction in Primary Culture of ‘Gluconeogenic’ and ‘Glycolytic’ Hepatocytes Resembling Periportal and Perivenous Cells

Abstract
Adult rat hepatocytes were kept in primary culture for 48 h under different hormonal conditions to induce an enzyme pattern which with respect to carbohydrate metabolism approximated that of periportal and perivenous hepatocytes in vivo. The results support the view that periportal and perivenous hepatocytes in vivo catalyse gluconeogenesis and glycolysis at inverse rates.