Effect of 36-hour starvation on in vivo amino acid and glucose uptake by rat brown adipose tissue |
| |
Authors: | F J López-Soriano J A Fernández-López M Alemany |
| |
Affiliation: | Department de Bioquímica i Fisiologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. |
| |
Abstract: | The effect of 36-hour starvation on the net uptake/release of amino acids and glucose by interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) of the rat has been studied by means of the determination of the arterio-venous differences in their blood concentrations. Starvation induced a net release of non-essential amino acids by the tissue, mainly alanine, glutamine, glycine and citrulline. In food deprived animals there was not a net glucose uptake by the IBAT. The results obtained in this study are in accordance with a typical peripheral tissue metabolic pattern of IBAT under food deprivation situations. |
| |
Keywords: | |
|
|