Affiliation:
1. Departments of Medicine and Physiology and
2. Pharmacology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642; and
3. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
Abstract
Release of glucose by the kidney in postabsorptive normal humans is generally regarded as being wholly due to gluconeogenesis. Although lactate is the most important systemic gluconeogenic precursor and there is appreciable net renal lactate uptake, renal lactate gluconeogenesis has not yet been investigated. The present studies were therefore undertaken to quantitate the contribution of lactate to renal gluconeogenesis and the role of the kidney in lactate metabolism. We determined systemic and renal lactate conversion to glucose as well as renal lactate net balance, fractional extraction, uptake, and release in 24 postabsorptive humans by use of a combination of isotopic and renal balance techniques. For comparative purposes, accumulated similar data for glutamine, alanine, and glycerol are also reported. Systemic lactate gluconeogenesis (1.97 ± 0.12 μmol · kg−1 · min−1) was about threefold greater than that from glycerol, glutamine, and alanine. The sum of gluconeogenesis from these precursors, uncorrected for tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle carbon exchange, explained 34% of systemic glucose release. Renal lactate uptake (3.33 ± 0.28 μmol · kg−1 · min−1) accounted for nearly 30% of its systemic turnover. Renal gluconeogenesis from lactate (0.78 ± 0.10 μmol · kg−1 · min−1) was 3.5, 2.5, and 9.6-fold greater than that from glycerol, glutamine, and alanine. The sum of renal gluconeogenesis from these precursors equaled ∼40% of the sum of their systemic gluconeogenesis. When the isotopically determined rates of systemic and renal gluconeogenesis were corrected for TCA cycle carbon exchange, gluconeogenesis from these precursors accounted for 43% of systemic glucose release and 89% of renal glucose release. We conclude that 1) in postabsorptive normal humans, lactate is the dominant precursor for both renal and systemic gluconeogenesis; 2) the kidney is an important organ for lactate disposal; 3) under these conditions, renal glucose release is predominantly, if not exclusively, due to gluconeogenesis; and 4) liver and kidney are similarly important for systemic gluconeogenesis.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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