Glucose kinetics of the virginia opossum: Possible implications for predicting glucose turnover in mammals

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 713-719

  Weber, Jean Michel ^a   Fournier, Randy ^a   Grant, Cassandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Carbohydrates; Hepatic glucose production; Marsupials; Metabolism; Scaling

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NITROGEN;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; LIVER METABOLISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPOSSUMS;

EID: 0031279831     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(97)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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