Turnover of liver glycogen in the rat foetus
- 15 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 176 (3) , 785-789
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1760785
Abstract
Incorporation and release of the radioactivity in the liver glycogen of 18.5- and 19.5-day-old rat foetuses were studied after intravenous injection of E11-14C]glycerol. Incorporation occurred during 1 h after injection of the radioactive tracer to the foetus; then, the incorporated radioactivity decreased. Glycogen content in the liver, and glycogen phosphorylase and glycogen synthase were not modified during the experiment. It is therefore postulated that a physiological turnover of glycogen exists in the liver of the rat foetus.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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