Pathways of Glucose Utilization in Epididymal and Testicular Sperm Cells
Open Access
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Dairy Science Association in Journal of Dairy Science
- Vol. 42 (1) , 110-114
- https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(59)90532-6
Abstract
Pathways of glucose utilization from bull and ram were investigated, using C14-labeled glucose as a tracer. An equal contribution to CO2 from the 2 substrates in epididymal spermatozoa and a preferential recovery of CO2 from glucose-1-C14 as compared with glucose-6-C14 in testicular sperm cells was observed. Results suggest that in epididymal spermatozoa the basic mechanism of glucose utilization is that of the Embden-Meyerhof scheme whereas in the testicular sperm cells glucose may be metabolized via alternative pathways.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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