Glucose oxidation and nonoxidative glucose disposal during prolonged fasts of the northern elephant seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Houser, Dorian S ^a   Crocker, Daniel E ^b   Tift, Michael S ^b   Champagne, Cory D ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elephant seal; Glucose oxidation; Glucose production; Ketosis; Nonoxidative glucose disposal

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WATER; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LIPID OXIDATION; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS; NITROGEN URINE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIROMETRY; SEAL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FASTING; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOLYSIS; HORMONES; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEALS, EARLESS;

EID: 84865703593     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00101.2012     Document Type: Article

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