Metabolic Relationships Between the Major Tissues in the Well-Fed State

Dietary glucose

• can be converted into glycogen by glycogenesis,
• converted into pyruvate and lactate by glycolysis,
• or used in the pentose phosphate pathway for the generation of NADPH for synthetic processes in the liver.

Pyruvate

Dietary glucose

Pyruvate

Lactate and pyruvate

Dietary triacylglycerol

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