Holness M J, Sugden M C
Department of Biochemistry, London Hospital Medical College, U.K.
Biochem J. 1990 Aug 15;270(1):245-9. doi: 10.1042/bj2700245.
The progressive effects of starvation on muscle glucose utilization were studied in the conscious resting rat. High rates of glucose uptake and phosphorylation in constantly working cardiothoracic (heart, diaphragm) and postural skeletal muscles (soleus, adductor longus) were maintained for at least 9 h of starvation. A rapid decline in cardiac glucose utilization was observed during the period 9-24 h of starvation, but for the other muscles the decline was more gradual. Consequently, even after 24 h, rates of glucose utilization in these muscles remained quantitatively significant. In both cardiothoracic and working (postural) skeletal muscle, glucose uptake and phosphorylation and activity of the active form of pyruvate dehydrogenase exhibited differential sensitivities to starvation and also to acute elevation of fatty acid concentrations during acute (4-9 h) starvation, such that pyruvate oxidation was more rapidly suppressed than glucose uptake and phosphorylation. The results are discussed in relation to the role of the glucose/fatty acid cycle in glucose conservation during the fed-to-starved transition.
在清醒的静息大鼠身上研究了饥饿对肌肉葡萄糖利用的渐进性影响。在持续工作的心胸(心脏、膈肌)和姿势性骨骼肌(比目鱼肌、长收肌)中,高葡萄糖摄取率和磷酸化率在饥饿至少9小时内得以维持。在饥饿9至24小时期间观察到心脏葡萄糖利用率迅速下降,但其他肌肉的下降则较为缓慢。因此,即使在24小时后,这些肌肉中的葡萄糖利用率在数量上仍很显著。在心胸肌和工作(姿势性)骨骼肌中,葡萄糖摄取、磷酸化以及丙酮酸脱氢酶活性形式的活性对饥饿以及急性(4至9小时)饥饿期间脂肪酸浓度的急性升高均表现出不同的敏感性,使得丙酮酸氧化比葡萄糖摄取和磷酸化更快受到抑制。结合葡萄糖/脂肪酸循环在进食到饥饿转变过程中保存葡萄糖的作用对结果进行了讨论。