Abstract
The intensity and regulation of metabolic pathways are different depending on the sex of the source animal for hepatocytes isolated from mature rats. (a) In cells from fed animals incubated without exogenous substrate, ATP level and ketone body production are higher in males (+25% and +100%) and lactate production is higher (+64%) in females; (b) oleate enhances mitochondrial pyruvate oxidation in hepatocytes from fed male rats but not from fed females; (c) in cells from starved animals oleate increases gluconeogenesis in both sexes at saturating levels of gluconeogenic substrates. However, at physiological levels (1 mM lactate and 0.1 mM pyruvate), this activation can only be detected in cells from males. In both sexes, oleate activation is abolished by adenosine which reduces in parallel the mitochondrial oxidation of pyruvate; (d) chloroadenosine, an A 2-receptor agonist, increases glycogenolysis strongly in hepatocytes from male animals (+80%) but only very slightly in female cells (+12%).
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