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. 1985 Nov 1;231(3):801–804. doi: 10.1042/bj2310801

Glycolytic origin of alanine formed in rat diaphragm muscle in vitro.

M A Caldecourt, D J Cox, M C Sugden, T N Palmer
PMCID: PMC1152823  PMID: 4074339

Abstract

In quarter-diaphragms from 40 h-starved rats the rate of glycogen mobilization is sufficient to account for the rate of lactate+pyruvate+alanine production. It is concluded, therefore, that alanine derives its carbon skeleton predominantly via glycolysis and not via synthesis de novo from tricarboxylic acid-cycle intermediates and related amino acids.

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