title: Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate: changes during neonatal maturation and aging of rat and potential role in regulation of glucose utilization.
abstract: During the 6 days following birth, tissue levels of fructose-2,6-P2 in rat brain, liver, muscle, heart and kidney did not significantly change. However, by the tenth day postpartum fructose-2,6-P2 levels in brain, heart, and skeletal muscle increased approximately 50% and attained adult values. During maturation of liver, adult levels of fructose-2,6-P2 were not achieved until 3-4 weeks after birth or approximately at the time of maximum rates of gluconeogenesis. Renal fructose-2,6-P2 levels in the neonate were initially elevated and 2-3 weeks after birth decreased approximately 2.5-fold to adult values. With the exception of the pons-medulla, which showed no significant changes in fructose-2,6-P2 amounts, levels of this regulatory sugar from aging brain regions were generally decreased. The fructose-2,6-P2 levels from heart atria of old rats (24-30 month) were also significantly decreased. In diaphragm, the fructose-2,6-P2 levels were increased at 12 months of age and at 27 months of age were twice the level at 3 months. The fructose-2,6-P2 levels during the aging of liver, skeletal muscle (EDL and soleus), spleen, thymus, kidney, testis and lung were not significantly altered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 62794-9230.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Kasten
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Dunaway
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D005635:Fructosediphosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D009928:Organ Specificity / Q000502:physiology; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D005635:Fructosediphosphates; C027652:fructose 2,6-diphosphate; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1