PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R Hume
AU  - A Burchell
TI  - Abnormal expression of glucose-6-phosphatase in preterm infants.
AID  - 10.1136/adc.68.2.202
DP  - 1993 Feb 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 202--204
VI  - 68
IP  - 2
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/68/2/202.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/68/2/202.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1993 Feb 01; 68
AB  - The hepatic microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme was studied in liver samples from 76 premature infants including 15 victims of sudden infant death syndrome. The data obtained were compared with glucose-6-phosphatase activity in liver samples from 95 term infants. In the majority of preterm infants up to 350 days of age the activity of the glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme was at or below the extreme low limit of the normal range in term infants. The premature infants with the lowest hepatic microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activities are likely to be at risk of hypoglycaemic episodes during periods of relative starvation or stress.