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  • Title: The effect of premature delivery on the development of gluconeogenic enzymes in the guinea pig.
    Author: Robinson BH, Oei J.
    Journal: Pediatr Res; 1976 Oct; 10(10):819-23. PubMed ID: 184425.
    Abstract:
    The activities of key gluconeogenic enzymes in the livers of newborn guinea pigs were monitored as a function of time following birth either vaginally at term or prematurely by cesarian section at 62 days of gestation. The activity of hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase rose dramatically from 1.40 +/- 0.26 mumol/min/g at birth to a maximum of 6.8 +/- 0.9 mumol/min/g at 24 hr in prematurely delivered animals although there was little significant change in activity in full term animals. The activity of hepatic fructose-1,6-diphosphatase and mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase changed little over the first 3 days of life in either full term or premature animals. Cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, on the other hand, had low activity at birth being 0.11 +/- 0.03 mumol/min/g in full term and 0.06 +/- 0.04 mumol in premature animals rising to values of 0.71 +/- 0.06 and 1.12 +/- 0.12 mumol/min/g, respectively, at 24 hr of life. Pyruvate carboxylase activities in the premature animals remained significantly lower than those in full term animals in the first 72 hr of life. Transient hypoglycemia was evident in the prematurely delivered animals, but not in the full term animals, the blood glucose values being 82 +/- 7 mg/100 ml for the full term animals and 20 +/- 8 mg/100 ml for the premature infants at 2 hr of life.
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