Carcass glycogen as a potential source of glucose during short-term starvation.

ABSTRACT: In small rats deprived of food for 19h (or 43h), 36% (or 39%) of the glycogen that disappeared was lost from the carcass and 64% (or 61%) from liver. Carcass glycogen is potentially a substantial source of glucose during short-term starvation via the Cori cycle.

SUBMITTER: Sugden MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1164301 | biostudies-other | 1976 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other