METABOLISM OF [C-14]GLUCOSE IN HAEMOBARTONELLA-LIKE INFECTED ERYTHROCYTES IN SPLENECTOMIZED CALVES

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 38  (6) , 739-741
Abstract
A quantitative relationship was established between glucose utilization by the Embden-Meyerhof glycolytic pathway and hexose monophosphate shunt in erythrocytes from splenectomized calves infected with a Haemobartonella bovis-like organism. Parasitized erythrocytes metabolized glucose 3.69-fold above normal. Embden-Meyerhof glycolytic pathway accounted for 99.4% of glucose utilization, and the remainder, by hexose monophosphate shunt.