TABLE 4.
Increased ratio of Ala to Ser in diabetes
| Sample | Ala/Ser |
Refs. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | diabetes | |||
| Rat (alloxan-diabetic) | Heart | 2.3 | 6.2 | Scharff and Wool (36) |
| Plasma | 1.4 | 2.7 | ||
| Rat (pancreatectomized) | Heart | 4.4 | 8.4 | |
| Plasma | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| Rat (anti-insulin treated) | Heart | 2.2 | 3.1 | |
| Plasma | 1.3 | 1.5 | ||
| Human (type II) | Platelet | 1.3 | 1.8 | De Luca et al. (32) |
| Human (type II) | Plasma | 2.7 | 3.0 | Bertea et al. (33) |
| Human (metabolic syndrome) | Plasma | 2.8 | 3.4 | Kamaura et al. (50) |