Amino acids in normal and diabetic ducks.
The transient diabetes, observed in ducks after subtotal pancreatectomy, induces hyperglycaemia and hyperamino-acidaemia. Threonine and alanine are quantitatively the most important amino acids in both normal and diabetic animals, suggesting a particular role of threonine in amino acid metabolic pathways in the duck. The hyperaminogenic role of the decreased insulin levels, and the neoglucogenic effect of a low, but not negligible, glucagon secretion, during diabetes, are discussed.
D000596:Amino Acids / Q000097:blood*; D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000097:blood*; D004372:Ducks / Q000097:blood*; D005934:Glucagon / Q000097:blood; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D013997:Time Factors
D000596:Amino Acids; D007328:Insulin; D005934:Glucagon