Glucogenic

The uses of corticosteroid antiinflammatory dmgs in veterinary medicine are many and varied. In the intact animal, the glucocorticoids and mineralcorticoids are produced in the adrenal glands. Exogenous compounds are, therefore, used for their glucogenic physiologic effect in cases where the... 

In mminants, whose main metabohc fuel is short-chain fatty acids formed by bacterial fermentation, the conversion of propionate, the major glucogenic product of rumen fermentation, to succinyl-CoA via the methyhnalonyl-CoA pathway (Figure 19—2) is especially important. 

Fatty acids with an odd number of carbon atoms are oxidized by the pathway of P-oxidation, producing acetyl-CoA, until a three-carbon (propionyl-CoA) residue remains. This compound is converted to succinyl-CoA, a constiment of the citric acid cycle (Figure 19-2). Hence, the propionyl residue from an odd-chain frtty acid is the only part of a frtty acid that is glucogenic. 

Glucogenic Everything else Degraded to pyruvate or a member of the TCA cycle Glucose can be made from these. 

The glucogenic amino acids are those that produce degradation products that can be converted only to glucose (there are a bunch of these). 

The elements present in a host of pharmaceutical substances are determined quantitatively by atomic absorption spectroscopy, for example Pd in carbenicillin sodium Cu, Pb and Zn in activated charcoal Fe in ascorbic acid Ag in cisplatin Ph and Zn in copper sulphate Zn in glucogen Zn in insulin Pb in oxprenolol hydrochloride Ni in prazosin hydrochloride Zn in sodium sulphite heptahydrate, and Cd and Pb in zinc oxide. 

GNG from the carbon skeletons of glucogenic amino acids and lactate... 

Following their deamination, several amino acids can be converted into oxaloacetate via pyruvate or other components of the TCA cycle these are termed glucogenic amino acids because their carbon atoms may eventually appear in glucose (see Table 6.7). The carbon skeletons of other amino acids may be converted into acetyl-CoA or acetoacetyl-CoA and these are ketogenic amino acids. A few amino acids be metabolized through both glucogenic and ketogenic pathways. 

Glucogenic amino acids Ketogenic amino acids Amino acids that are glucogenic and ketogenic... 

This enzyme is found in many tissues, where it catalyzes the reversible oxidative deamination of the amino acid glutamate. It produces the citric acid cycle intermediate a-ketoglutarate, which serves as an entry point to the cycle for a group of glucogenic amino adds. Its role in urea synthesis and nitrogen removal is stiU controversial, but has heen induded in Figure 1-17-1 and Table 1-17-1. 

The degradation of most amino acids is anaplerotic, because it produces either intermediates of the cycle or pyruvate glucogenic amino acids see p. 180). Gluconeogenesis is in fact largely sustained by the degradation of amino acids. A particularly important anaplerotic step in animal metabolism leads from pyruvate to oxaloacetic acid. This ATP-dependent reaction is catalyzed by pyruvate... 

With two exceptions (lysine and leucine see below), all of the proteinogenic amino acids are also glucogenic. Quantitatively, they represent the most important precursors for gluconeogenesis. At the same time, they also have an anaplerotic effect—1. e., they replenish the tricarboxylic acid cycle in order to feed the anabolic reactions that originate in it (see p. 138). 

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