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Abstract
The intestinal mucosa of infant rats was found to produce ketones when incubated in Krebs-Ringer-Bicarbonate solution. No production was found in weaned rats. Ketogenesis could be inhibited by D-carnitine or tetradecylglycidic acid (TDGA) an inhibitor of long-chain acylcarnitine transferase, suggesting that ketone production is due to a large extent to break-down of long-chain fatty acids. It is considered possible that both ketones and glucose (also produced by the infant mucosa) serve as substrates for the muscular part of the intestine.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3626770 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(87)90718-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Life Sci ISSN: 0024-3205 Impact factor: 5.037