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Comparative utilization in vivo of (U-14C) glycerol, (2-3H) glycerol, (U-14C) glucose and (1-14C) palmitate in the rat.

Title: Comparative utilization in vivo of (U-14C) glycerol, (2-3H) glycerol, (U-14C) glucose and (1-14C) palmitate in the rat.
Authors : Carmaniu, Salvador
Herrera Castillón, Emilio.
Abstract: Female rats were injected i.v. with comparable trace amounts of [U-14C] glycerol, [2-3H] glycerol, [U-14C] glucose, or [l-14C] palmitate, and killed 30 min afterwards. The radioactivity remaining in plasma at that time was maximal in animals receiving [U-14C] glucose while the appearance of radioactive lipids was higher in the [U-14C] glycerol animals than in other groups receiving hydrosoluble substrates. The carcass, more than the liver, was the tissue where the greatest proportion of radioactivity was recovered, while the greatest percentage of radioactivity appeared in the liver in the form of lipids. The values of total radioactivity found in different tissues were very similar when using either labelled glucose or glycerol but the amount recovered as lipids was much greater in the latter. The maximal proportion of radioactive lipids appeared in the fatty-acid form in the liver, carcass, and lumbar fat pads when using [U-14C] glycerol as a hydrosoluble substrate, and the highest lipidic fraction appeared in adipose tissue as labelled, esterified fatty acids. In the spleen, heart, and kidney, most of the lipidic radioactivity from any of the hydrosoluble substrates appeared as glyceride glycerol. The highest proportion of radioactivity from [1 -14C] palmitate appeared in the esterified fatty acid in adipose tissue, being followed in decreasing proportion by the heart, carcass, liver, kidney, and spleen. Thus at least in part, both labelled glucose and glycerol are used throughout different routes for their conversion in vivo to lipids. A certain proportion of glycerol is directly utilized by adipose tissue. The fatty acids esterification ability differs among the ,_ tissues and does not correspond directly with the reported activities of glycerokinase, suggesting that the a-glycerophosphate for esterification comes mainly from glucose and not from glycerol.
Description: En: Archives internationales de physiologie et de biochimie, ISSN 0003-9799 1980. n. 88, 255-263
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10637/814
Rights : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
Issue Date: 19-Sep-1980
Center : Universidad San Pablo-CEU
Appears in Collections:Facultad de Farmacia





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