title: Cardiac and renal pentose phosphate pathway activity in thiamine deficiency.
abstract: Thiamine deficiency was produced in young rats by feeding a thiamine deficient diet. At a time when neurological symptoms were severe, and cardiac and renal transketolase activities were decreased, the animals were sacrificed. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase activities, and flux through the pentose phosphate pathway were similar in pair-fed control and thiamine deficient rats. These data suggest that altered pentose phosphate pathway activity is not a vital feature of murine thiamine deficiency.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D007679:Kidney Medulla / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010428:Pentosephosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D013832:Thiamine Deficiency / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010428:Pentosephosphates; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase