DUMET Medical DUMET Medical Solved Paper-2010

  • question_answer
    The amino acid that acts as a carrier of ammonia from skeletal muscle to liver is

    A)  alanine          

    B)  methionine

    C)  arginine         

    D)  glutamine

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    Glutamine serves as a carrier to remove the ammonia. Peripheral tissues may also remove ammonia from the blood by metabolically incorporating it into glutamine. Glutamine is  freely permeable and may transfer ammonia  to other tissues for nitrogen transfer reactions or for metabolic degradation via the urea cycle.


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