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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2007

A child is languid, apathetic. Liver is enlarged and liver biopsy revealed a significant excess of glycogene. Glucose concentration in the blood stream is below normal. What is the cause of low glucose concentration?

Answer options

  1. Deficit of a gene that is responsible for synthesis of glucose 1-phosphaturidine transferase
  2. Low (absent) activity of glycogene phosphorylase in liver
  3. Low (absent) activity of hexokinase
  4. Low (absent) activity of glucose 6-phosphatase
  5. High activity of glycogen synthetase
Correct answer

Low (absent) activity of glycogene phosphorylase in liver

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