Experiment on gluconeogenesis

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Question: Just completed an experiment on Gluconeogenesis looking at the different precursors. I am a bit stuck on why lactate and alanine might be of different efficiency as gluconeogenic substrates, because they are both converted into pyruvate?? Lactate appears to be more efficient at glucose production in a starved rat kidney. why is this?

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