Functional glycerol kinase activity and the possibility of a major role for glyceroneogenesis in mammalian skeletal muscle

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 145-148

  Watford, Malcolm ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034082162     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2000.tb01849.x     Document Type: Review

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