The Alanine cycle
Follow the alanine link in the alanine cycle. The process goes as under:
1) Pyruvate formed from glycolysis in the muscle is converted to alanine by transamination reaction.
2) Alanine is released by the muscle into the blood and is taken up by the liver.
3) In the liver, alanine is converted back to pyruvate by the reverse of the transamination reaction t at ockurred in the'muscle.
4) Pyruvate is converted to glucose via gluconeogenic pathway.