Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Noninvasive liquid diet delivery of stable isotopes into mouse models for deep metabolic network tracing

  • Ramon C. Sun,
  • Teresa W.-M. Fan,
  • Pan Deng,
  • Richard M. Higashi,
  • Andrew N. Lane,
  • Anh-Thu Le,
  • Timothy L. Scott,
  • Qiushi Sun,
  • Marc O. Warmoes,
  • Ye Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01518-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Isotope tracer administration for probing metabolism in vivo is important to assess metabolic functions in a relevant physiological setting. Here, the authors report a non-invasive method of administering 13C6- glucose to mouse models via liquid diet feeding to achieve deep metabolic network coverage.