title: What determines the basal metabolic rate of vertebrate cells in vivo?
abstract: Do vertebrate cells dictate basal metabolic rate or does the organism have some influence over this decision? In this paper we advance the idea that the rate of delivery of essential nutrients to cells could be a key regulatory mechanism, a concept which originates for Coulson (Comp. Biochem, Physiol., 84A, 1986, 217-229) that we have extended to the delivery of substrates to enzymes at the intracellular level.
authors.affiliation: Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California Davis 94923.
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Wheatley
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Clegg
mesh_terms: D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002477:Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D013045:Species Specificity; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose