Free Glycerol

question 44

Multiple Choice

Free glycerol

• A) is not a gluconeogenic substrate and is readily excreted in the urine.
• B) is potentially gluconeogenic, and its point of entry into the gluconeogenic pathway is as pyruvate.
• C) cannot support the net synthesis of glucose, because glycerol cannot be phosphorylated in vivo.
• D) is potentially gluconeogenic, and its point of entry into the gluconeogenic pathway is as triose phosphate.
• E) is ketogenic because it is derived from the catabolism of triacylglycerols.

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