[Use of circadian rhythms for analysis of the interrelationships between the concentration of glucocorticoids in the blood and the activity of key enzymes for gluconeogenesis in the liver and kidney of rats]

Abstract

Circadian rhythms of alterations in content of 11-hydroxycorticosteroids and glucose in blood as well as in the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, fructose-1,6-diphosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase in liver and kidney tissues were studied under normal and inverted luminous regimens in summer and winter seasons. These patterns were distinctly altered depending on circadian rhythms in the above-mentioned conditions. The maximal content of 11-hydroxycorticosteroids in blood did not correlate with the highest activity of the gluconeogenesis key enzymes in the periods studied. Daily alterations in the activity of phosphoemolpyruvate carboxykinase were shown to be similar to that of the fructose-1,6-diphosphatase in various tissues at different seasons. But glucose-6-phosphatase differed distinctly from these enzymes by the daily rhythm of activity. This suggests that glucose-6-phosphatase has the other mechanism for regulation of its daily rhythm.