[Potentiation of the antiketogenic effect of exogenous glucose with the help of the new beta-oxidation inhibitor mildronate--3-(2,2,2-trimethylhydrazine)propionate].

Antiketogenic effect of exogenous glucose (2 g/kg, per os, 1 hr before death) was potentiated after preadministration of mildronate 3-(2,2,2-trimethylhydrazinium) propionate into rats either kept on usual ration or fasting within 48 hrs at a dose of 200 and 400 mg/kg, per os, during 10 days. Mildronate is inhibitor of carnitine-dependent metabolism of fatty acids affecting at the step of gamma-butyrobetaine turnover into carnitine. The drug inhibitory influence studied appears to be realized via activation of the glycolytic pathway of glucose metabolism specific for inhibitors of beta-oxidation.