KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 71 · KROK (Dentistry)
A patient with rheumatoid arthritis has been given hydrocortisone for a long time. He has developed hyperglycemia, polyuria, glycosuria, thirst. These complications of treatment result from the activation of the following process:
- A. Lipolysis
- B. Gluconeogenesis
- C. Glycogenolysis
- D. Glycolysis
- E. Glycogenesis
Hint
Think which metabolic pathway glucocorticoids induce in the liver to make glucose from amino acids released by protein breakdown.
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