Oral Glutamine Is Superior Than Oral Glucose to Promote Glycemia Recovery in Mice Submitted to Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia
Figure 4
Hepatic production of glucose as a function of increasing concentrations of glycerol, lactate, alanine, and glutamine in 14 hr fasted mice. The animals were subjected to in situ liver perfusion 180 min after an intraperitoneal injection of regular insulin (1.0 U·kg−1, IIH group) or saline (NORMO group). The bars express the values of the area under curve (μmol·g−1), that is, (the increment of glucose production between 10 and 110 min) as mean ± standard deviation of 6–8 experiments. IIH versus NORMO.
