Title : The role of growth hormone in substrate utilization.

Pub. Date : 1997 Dec

PMID : 9589778






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1 However during starvation ketoacid production as the consequence of incomplete fatty acid oxidation and ketone excretion swamps the basogenic limb and full-blown metabolic acidosis prevails; under this condition growth hormone"s effectiveness in sparing nitrogen for anabolic processes is curtailed as glutamate (emanating from the liver) and glutamine (derived from muscle proteolysis) are directed to the kidneys, supporting ammoniogenesis: nitrogen balance is now sacrificed for acid-base homoeostasis. Glutamine growth hormone 1 Homo sapiens