PMID- 6208868
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19841220
LR  - 20190908
IS  - 0003-9799 (Print)
IS  - 0003-9799 (Linking)
VI  - 92
IP  - 2
DP  - 1984 Aug
TI  - Metabolic differentiation of homologous leg muscles of two aquatic birds at the 
      level of enzymatic organization.
PG  - 65-72
AB  - The quantitative determination of succinic dehydrogenase (SDH), hexokinase (HK), 
      phosphorylase, phosphofructokinase (PFK), glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 
      (G-3-PDH) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) was carried out in the homologous leg 
      muscles of two aquatic Birds. It appears that the leg muscle fibres of the coot, 
      a surface swimmer are more oxidative in nature and appear to utilize glucose as 
      source of energy. The leg muscles of the dabchick, a diving Bird, on the other 
      hand, seem to depend on glycogen as source of energy. The relative activity 
      levels of HK, phosphorylase and PFK support the accepted role of glycogen as 
      primary substrate of carbohydrate catabolism in the leg muscles. The ratio of 
      G-3-PDH/LDH in the leg muscles revealed that glycerol 3-phosphate cycle appears 
      to be insufficient to account for the major part of NADH oxidation. However, the 
      LDH activity is quite high in all the muscles. These results led us to believe 
      that glycerol 3-phosphate cycle may function during rest, when the rate of 
      glycolysis will be low.
FAU - Deshpande, B R
AU  - Deshpande BR
FAU - Kallapur, V L
AU  - Kallapur VL
FAU - Venkatesh, K
AU  - Venkatesh K
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Belgium
TA  - Arch Int Physiol Biochim
JT  - Archives internationales de physiologie et de biochimie
JID - 0405355
RN  - EC 1.1.- (Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase)
RN  - EC 1.1.1.27 (L-Lactate Dehydrogenase)
RN  - EC 1.3.99.1 (Succinate Dehydrogenase)
RN  - EC 2.4.1.- (Phosphorylases)
RN  - EC 2.7.1.1 (Hexokinase)
RN  - EC 2.7.1.11 (Phosphofructokinase-1)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Birds/*physiology
MH  - Glycerolphosphate Dehydrogenase/analysis
MH  - *Glycolysis
MH  - Hexokinase/analysis
MH  - L-Lactate Dehydrogenase/analysis
MH  - Muscles/*enzymology
MH  - Phosphofructokinase-1/analysis
MH  - Phosphorylases/analysis
MH  - Succinate Dehydrogenase/analysis
MH  - Swimming
MH  - Tissue Distribution
EDAT- 1984/08/01 00:00
MHDA- 1984/08/01 00:01
CRDT- 1984/08/01 00:00
PHST- 1984/08/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1984/08/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1984/08/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3109/13813458409071128 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Int Physiol Biochim. 1984 Aug;92(2):65-72. doi: 10.3109/13813458409071128.