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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 269: E18-E26, 1995;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 269, Issue 1 E18-E26, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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A limitation in the use of mass isotopomer distributions to measure gluconeogenesis in fasting humans

B. R. Landau, C. A. Fernandez, S. F. Previs, K. Ekberg, V. Chandramouli, J. Wahren, S. C. Kalhan and H. Brunengraber
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

The use of distributions of mass isotopomers in glucose from [U-13C]glycerol to estimate fractional rates of gluconeogenesis was examined. [U-13C]glycerol was infused into normal subjects who ingested acetaminophen and fasted for 60 h. Isotopomer distributions were measured by mass spectrometry in blood glucose and in glucuronic acid from urinary acetaminophen glucuronide. The distributions are incompatible with glucose production solely via gluconeogenesis from a single pool of triose phosphates. Rather, with the assumption of a single enriched triose phosphate pool, the distributions indicate, despite the 60 h of fasting, about as much glucose formation from an unlabeled glucose source as from that pool. Therefore the data indicate cellular heterogeneity in glycerol's metabolism, so that two or more pools with significantly different enrichments were the source of the glucose and glucuronic acid. This heterogeneity is related to much greater concentrations of glycerol in periportal than in pericentral zones of the liver lobule. Beyond evidence for heterogeneity, the findings emphasize a limitation in applying analyses of mass isotopomer distributions to measure polymer biosynthesis in the presence of heterogeneity in the precursor pool.


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