Glutamine-glutamate exchange between placenta and fetal liver.
Glutamine-glutamate exchange between placenta and fetal liver.
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胎盘和胎儿肝脏之间的谷氨酰胺-谷氨酸交换。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpendo.1995.268.4.e705
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发表时间:
1995
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Meschia,G
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作者:
Vaughn,PR;Lobo,C;Battaglia,FC;Fennessey,PV;Wilkening,RB;Meschia,G
The hypothesis that glutamine shuttles nitrogen between placenta and fetal liver via interconversion with glutamate was explored by infusing L-[1,2-13C2]glutamine in six fetal sheep chronically catheterized for sampling of the umbilical and hepatic circulations. Fetal plasma glutamine disposal rate was 19.9 +/- 1.3 mumol.min-1.kg fetus-1. Entry of glutamine from the placenta accounted for approximately 60% of the total glutamine entry rate in fetal plasma. Glutamine was taken up by fetal liver, and 45.3 +/- 7.9% of the glutamine taken up was released as glutamate. The fetal liver released large quantities of glutamate, as evidenced by a sixfold increase in plasma glutamate concentration in the blood flowing through the left hepatic lobe and a hepatic glutamate output-to-O2 uptake molar ratio of 0.149 +/- 0.013. In conjunction with a previous study of fetal glutamate metabolism, these data demonstrate that glutamine entering the fetal circulation is converted to glutamate by the fetal liver at a rate of approximately 3-4 mumol.min-1.kg fetus-1.