AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 267, Issue 1 E174-E182, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of pyruvate and lactate kinetics across the hindlimb and gut of anesthetized dogs

D. L. Chinkes, X. J. Zhang, J. A. Romijn, Y. Sakurai and R. R. Wolfe
Metabolism Unit, Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston, Texas.

We have developed a new model to quantify regional pyruvate and lactate transmembrane transport, shunting, exchange, production, and oxidation in vivo. The method is based on the systemic continuous infusion of pyruvate or lactate stable isotopic carbon tracers and the measurement of pyruvate and lactate enrichment and concentration in the artery and vein of that region (e.g., leg or gut), the pyruvate and lactate enrichment of intracellular free water in the tissue as measured by biopsy, and the rate of blood flow through the tissue. The purpose of the experiment was to measure the pyruvate and lactate kinetics in leg muscle and gut in anesthetized dogs (n = 6). The transmembrane transport and degree of shunting of pyruvate and lactate were comparable in muscle and gut. When modified for substrate inflow, interconversion between pyruvate and lactate took place at a rate twice as fast in muscle as in the gut, and production and oxidation of pyruvate was approximately 50% greater in muscle than in the gut. Thus our new model enables quantitation of many aspects of lactate and pyruvate kinetics. We conclude that in anesthetized animals the muscle is the tissue most responsible for whole body peripheral pyruvate and lactate kinetics.

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