Glycolysis in Plasmodium gallinaceum. *

Summary and Conclusions

A study of the glucose requirements of Plasmodium gallinaceum has been made, and formulae derived for predicting the hourly glucose consumption rates of parasitized and unparasitized blood. These should be useful in predicting the amounts of glucose required for cultures and indicative of the in vivo drain on carbohydrate stores. Normal chicken blood was found to have an hourly glucose consumption rate of approximately 8.7 mg per 100 ml, and values as high as 74.7 mg per 100 ml were observed for parasitized blood. The glucose consumption per square micron per hour was 3.42 X 10⁻¹³ mg, 2.41 X 10⁻¹² mg, and 3.00 X 10⁻¹¹ mg for adult red cells, reticulocytes, and parasites respectively.