The probable significance of hypertriglyceridaemia in viral hepatitis
Aiyathurai, J.E.; Sentheshanmuganathan, S.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 6(6): 529-532
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291 PMID: 1071534 Document Number: 101309
The raised serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase activity (SGPT) in viral hepatitis reflects an adaptive increase in glutamic pyruvic transaminase in muscle for the increased transamination of alanine for post-absorptive glucose homeostasis. In a disease where the SGPT is elevated for 4-6 wk, muscle cannot be an indefinite source of alanine unless it could, concurrently, resynthesize alanine.