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Todays Topic Of Teaching and

Learning?
Biochemistry Of

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Starvation

Specific Learning Objectives

? What is Starvation?

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? Which Conditions develop Starvation?
? What are Stages/Phases of Starvation?
? Which Hormones play imp role in starvation?
? Factors of Biochemical adaptation in Starvation
? How Organs adapt to Starvation?

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? What are Consequences of Starvation?
What Is Starvation?

?Starvation is

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complete stoppage

of eating food by a

human body.

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What Is Total Starvation?

?Total starvation is

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complete stoppage

of Food and Water.
Conditions Developing Starvation

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Conditions Developing Starvation

? Food Scarcity
(Natural Calamities , Draughts Floods and ,Famines)
? Extreme Poverty

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? Lost in Sea routes for long durations
? Clinical Conditions: Major Surgeries, Severe Burns
? Desire to loose rapid weight
? Political Issues: Hunger Strikes
During

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Starvation

Body

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is under

Metabolic Stress

Features Of Starved Body

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? No entry of exogenous food nutrients

? Starved body is deprived of:

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?Calories (Carbs and Lipids)

?Building blocks (Proteins)

?Growth Factors(Vitamins and Minerals)

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?Protectors (Antioxidants)
Biochemical Adaptations

During Starvation

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Important Factors Responsible For

Adaptation In Starvation

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? Content Of Endogenous Stores
? Health of Associated Organs and System
? Associated Metabolic Processes involved with:

?Hormones

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?Enzymes
?Coenzymes
? During Starvation a body is in an

emergency/critical condition

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? Has to face Biochemical Chal enge
? Has to get adapted
? Manage with endogenous metabolite

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reserve stores

? Communicate and Cooperate through

hormones

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?Overcome state by biochemical alterations
?Try Survive as per condition

Survival Period During Starvation

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? Survival period during Starvation

depends upon :

? Reserve TAG stores of Adiposecytes:

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?More content of TAG in Adiposecytes

?More is duration of survival in

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Starvation and vice a versa.

Length Of Survival In Starvation

? Due to deprivation of only Food:

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?3 to 4 Weeks

?Longer up to 65 days

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? Deprivation of water alone then

survival is only for few days

?Less than a week

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Effects Of Starvation

OR

Human Body Adaptation In

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Starvation



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Biochemical Alterations In

Starvation

Different Modes

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To Study Biochemical

Adaptations

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During Starvation Phases
Study Of Biochemistry Of Starvation

With Respect To

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?Stages
?Metabolism
?Organs

Alternative Adaptations

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In Different

Metabolic Processes

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During Starvation
Occurrence Of

Four Stages During Starvation

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Metabolic Alterations During

Starvation

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Starvation

Metabolic Alterations

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Stages

1

Increased Glycogenolysis

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2

Proteolysis

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Glucose Alanine Cycle

Increased Gluconeogenesis

3

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Increased Lipolysis

Fatty acid Beta Oxidation(Incomplete)

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4

Increased Ketogenesis

Ketosis

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Fasting ? Early Stage

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Muscle

Alanine / Pyruvate

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Brain

Glucose

Glutamine

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Glycerol

Gluconeogenesis

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Fat

Ketogenesis

Ketones

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AGL

Liver

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Ureagenesis

Ketones

Urea

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NH3

Kidney

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Intestine


Fasting ? Late Stage

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Muscle

Alanine / Pyruvate

Brain

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Glucose

Glutamine

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Glycerol

Gluconeogenesis

Fat

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Ketogenesis

Ketones

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AGL

Liver

Ureagenesis

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Ketones

Urea

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NH3

Kidney

Intestine

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Role Of Hormones In Starvation
? When food is in Short supply
? Metabolic activity decreases

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to spare fuel.

? Conservation of energy is

basic adaptive response to

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calorie reduction

? Hormones influences an

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utilization of endogenous

reserve stores and

? Supply fuels to body

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organs during starvation

phase.

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Hormonal Alterations In Starvation

? Insulin secretion

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decreased

? Glucagon and Epinephrine

increased

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Metabolic Role Of Hormones
Hormonal Influences In Starvation

H ormone

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Source

Change in

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Secretion

Norepinephrine Sympathetic


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Nervous System



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Norepinephrine Adrenal Gland

Epinephrine

Adrenal Gland

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Thyroid

Thyroid Gland

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Hormone T4

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(changes to T3

peripherally)

?Norepinephrine and T3

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participate to


?Decrease metabolic

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activity when calorie

intake decreases.
? Thus biochemical alterations during

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Starvation are influenced by hormonal

actions.

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? Glucagon and Epinephrine in starvation

act upon target organs

? Stimulate metabolic pathways which

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supply fuels

? Improve survival phase during

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Starvation.

Metabolic Alterations In Starvation
Biochemical Alterations Of

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Carbohydrate Metabolism

During Starvation Phase

Carbohydrate Metabolism

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In Liver During Starvation Phase

? Glycogenolysis Increased

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? Glycogenesis Decreased

? Glucose Alanine Cycle increased

? Gluconeogenesis Increased

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? Glycolysis Decreased

? TCA operation Decreased

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? HMP Shunt Decreased

? Blood Glucose level Decreases (later stages)

? Cellular Glucose Deprivation (In Muscle Cells)

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?PDH a Multi Enzyme

Complex is inhibited

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during Starvation
Alterations In Protein Metabolism

During Starvation

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Proteins Serve as Calorific

During Starvation

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? Muscle Proteins are catabolized to provide

carbon skeleton for Liver Gluconeogenesis

? Liver Gluconeogenesis increased via Glucose

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Alanine cycle regulates blood Glucose levels

? Glucose produced initially via Gluconeogenesis

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to Brain and Erythrocytes
Protein Metabolism During Starvation

? As Glucose levels lowers in blood

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? Catabolism Of Muscle Proteins

increased

? Transdeamination reaction of

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Amino acids is increased

? To release Glucogenic amino acids

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? Glucose Alanine Cycle elevates

? Ammonia Detoxification and

Urea production increased

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initial y and decreased as

Starvation phase prolongs.

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? Body is in negative Nitrogen

Balance.

? Concentration of Functional

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Proteins Decreases.


Nitrogen Excretion in Starvation

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Glucose Nitrogen Ratio

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Increased In Starvation


Biochemical Alterations of

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Lipid Metabolism In Starvation


Lipid Metabolism During Starvation

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? Lipolysis is Increased
? Mobilization of Free Fatty acids increased
? Beta oxidation of Fatty acids increased
? Incomplete Fatty acid Oxidation increased

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? Ketogenesis Increased
? Ketolysis Decreased
? Ketosis Noted (Ketoacidosis)-Rotheras Test +ve
? Lipogenesis is Decreased
?Enzyme Acetyl Carboxylase

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is inhibited during

Starvation

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Levels Of Ketone Bodies

Increases

As

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Starvation Phase Prolongs


Increased Ketogenesis In Starvation

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What Happens? When Ketone body production

Exceeds than the Ketone body Utilization?

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? When Prolonged Starvation ?

? Cellular Glucose deprivations occurs
? Glycogen stores depletes within 24 hrs of fasting
? Fat burns under flame of Carbohydrates

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? Fatty acid are incompletely oxidized
? Acetyl-CoA of fatty acid oxidation is metabolized to

ketone bodies and mobilized out of Hepatocytes

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? Ketogenesis increased Ketolysis decreased
? Leads to Ketosis-Ketonemia and Ketonuria
Prolonged Starvation Leads to

? Ketosis (Ketonemia and Ketonuria)

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? High levels of Ketone Bodies in blood and

urine

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? Ketoacidosis

? Severe Ketosis
? Lowered blood pH
? Nausea ,Acetone breath

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? Coma, Death

?3 days starvation

[Ketone Bodies]=3mM

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?3 weeks starvation

[Ketone Bodies]=7mM

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Cure For Ketosis

? Ketosis Cured by infusion of

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Glucose.
During Starvation

Alterations Occur In

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Water and Electrolyte

And

Acid Base Balance

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? Reduction in Body Water
? Reduction of Potassium ions
? Acidic blood pH due to

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increased Ketone bodies
?On prolonged phase of

Starvation there results

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?Severe dehydration and

Acid Base imbalance

Starvation Alters BMR

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? BMR is first affected in starvation

? In starvation metabolism decreases

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? During starvation BMR is Decreased


Biochemical Adaptations

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By Organs

During Starvation Phase


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The Fasting State:

Glucagon stimulates glucose

production and release in liver.

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Also mobilizes the fatty acids

(sparing Glucose for the Brain)

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FUEL CHOICE DURING STARVATION

1. Insulin

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6. Ketone bodies

5. Fatty acids

2.Glucagon

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3 .Glucose

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4. Glycogen

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Hours of Starvation

Changes Of Liver Glycogen Content
During Starvation

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? Fuel changes from Glucose to Fatty acids to

Ketone bodies

Metabolic Response To Fasting

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Metabolic Response to Starvation is

Characterized

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? Switch from carbohydrate metabolism to fat

metabolism,

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? Context of a hypometabolic state, with minimized

catabolism

? Initial y, stores of carbohydrate precursors (eg.

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glycogen) are depleted via Glycogenolysis within 24 hrs.

? In first 24-48 hours there is increased gluconeogenesis

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from amino acids and glycerol.


? Subsequently, Ketogenesis takes over, and much of the

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body metabolic needs are met by ketone bodies and

free fatty acids.

? This is the consequence of decreasing insulin levels,

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and relatively increased influence from catecholamines

and cortisol.

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? Over prolonged starvation, protein catabolism begins,

resulting in degradation of structural y important

proteins, and organ system dysfunction.

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Differentiation In

Well Fed And Fasting States

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Of Human Body
WELL-FED STATE

FASTING STATE

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Hormones

Insulin

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Glucagon,

Adrenaline, Cortisol

Hyperglycemia

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Hypoglycemia

Response of

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Glycogenesis

Lipolysis

the body

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Lipogenesis

Ketogenesis

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Protein synthesis

Proteolysis

WELL-FED STATE

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FASTING STATE

Source of

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from stores

(Glycogen)

Glucose

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from food

Gluconeogenesis

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Fate of

Glycolysis

Glucose

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formation of Glycogen and

Glycolysis

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TAG stores
WELL-FED STATE

FASTING STATE

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Source of

from food TAG

from storage TAG

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Fatty acids

-oxidation

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Fate of Fatty

-oxidation

(Incomplete one)

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acids

synthesis of TAG and

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Store as Depot Fat

Ketogenesis

WELL-FED STATE

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FASTING STATE

Source of

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Amino acids

from food

From muscle Proteins

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Glucogenic amino

Fate of

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Protein synthesis

acids

Amino acids

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Produce Glucose via

Gluconeogenesis

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Preferred fuels By Human body

In the Well-Fed and Fasting States

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Organs

Well-Fed

Fasting

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Liver

Glucose & Fatty

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Fatty acids

acids

Resting skeletal

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Glucose &

Fatty acids & KB

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Muscle

Fatty acids

Cardiac muscle

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Fatty acids

FA,AA & KB

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Adipose tissue

Glucose

Fatty acids

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Brain

Glucose

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Glucose ,Later KB

RBCs

Glucose

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Glucose
BIOCHEMICAL PROFILE OF EARLY FASTING STATE

Blood Glucose levels decreases

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65 mg/dl

Active Glycogenolysis

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Muscle and Liver

Shift of metabolic fuel from Glucose to fatty

acidsFatty acid mobilization from adipose tissues

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Gluconeogenesis

Glucose Alanine cycle

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BIOCHEMICAL PROFILE OF STARVED STATE

GLUCOSE levels more decreased

40 mg/dL

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PROTEIN CATABOLISM increased

Sequesters Nitrogen as urea
Excretes 20 to 30 grams daily

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Gluconeogenesis taking place using precursors as

Amino acids
Lactate

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Glycerol

KETONE BODIES increased

Acetyl CoA converted to ketone bodies via Ketogenesis

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In Prolonged Starvation

? After 3 days of Starvation -> Liver

forms large amounts of Ketone

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bodies

( Due to shortage of Oxaloacetate)
? Ketone Bodies -> released into blood

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? Brain and Heart start to use ketone

bodies as fuel during phase of

Starvation.

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Starvation Of Several Weeks

? After several weeks of starvation ->

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Ketone bodies become major fuel of

Brain

? After depletion of TAG stores

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? Proteins degradation accelerates
? Death due to loss of Heart, Liver,

and Kidney function.

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Consequences Of Starvation
? Severe Nutrient deficiency
? Affects vitality and Damages Important

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Internal Organs /System

? Anaemia (Iron and Protein deficiency)
? Decreased BMR
? Fatigue, Weakness

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? Low Immunity
? Increases Sleep

? Night blindness (Vitamin A deficiency)
? Scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency)

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? Irregular Menses
? Constipation
? Bone Loss
? Dehydration

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? Water Electrolyte Imbalance
? High Blood Pressure
? Brain Defects
? Coma and Death (Life Ends)

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Questions

? Explain the different stages of

starvation & biochemical alterations

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in the body during these stages.

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? Biochemical alterations/adaptations

during starvation.
? Describe role of following

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organs during various stages of

starvation

? Liver

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? Brain
? Muscles
? Adipose tissues

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