KINE 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Blood Sugar, Glycogen, Metabolic Equivalent
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The rq is an indicator what subrostrate your using. Protein isn"t considered in this it is all either fat or carbohydrate. Ffa fatty acids means there no longer bound to a triglyceride. In this example, we used glucose, we used 6 oxygens and we produce 6 co2 and 6h2o and we make a lot of heat an atp. The ratio of co2 produced to o2 consumed is 1 or 6:6. So when your burning pure carbohydrate you know your burning pure carbohydrate if the respiratory quotient that you measured the volume of co2=vo2 and the ratio is 1 you know your burning carbohydrate. When you take a molecule of glucose and you break it into 3 carbon making it into 2 goes through glycolysis. The first step in making co2 is this reaction pyruvate dehydrogenase in which you convert pyruvic acid to acetyl coa and co2 is made there.