AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 257, Issue 3 E346-E353, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Glucose recycling and production in glycogenosis type I and III: stable isotope technique study

B. Kalderon, S. H. Korman, A. Gutman and A. Lapidot
Isotope Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Glucose carbon recycling, endogenous glucose production, and glucose turnover rates were measured, by stable isotope methodology, in five patients with glycogen storage disease type I (GSD-I), two patients with glycogen storage disease type III (GSD-III), and three control children. A primed-constant infusion of D-[U-13C]glucose was administered nasogastrically to fasted subjects. The isotopic enrichments and 13C isotopomer distribution of plasma glucose were measured by chemical ionization gas chromatography mass spectroscopy. In response to increasing rates of glucose infusion, endogenous glucose production decreased, whereas the rate of glucose appearance or total glucose flux increased. Recycling of infused D-[U-13C]-glucose, calculated from changes in the isotopomer distribution of plasma [13C]glucose, was not detectable in GSD-I but reached 50% in GSD-III. In GSD-I the gluconeogenic pool was found to be highly labeled and recycled, whereas plasma glucose was diluted but not recycled. It is suggested that in GSD-I dilution of plasma glucose is due to release of glucose from branch points in glycogen. We propose that studies of the extent of glucose recycling and of isotopic enrichment of gluconeogenic precursors can be used as a noninvasive test for diagnosis of GSD-I and other defects in glucose production.

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