Do you know why Glucose Tolerance Test is often performed in mice fasted 6h while Pyruvate Tolerance Test is mostly done on mice fasted overnight?

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Hau Van Doan

Hi Jack, I don't have experience in Pyruvate tolerance test. for 6h fasting in OGTT, I got the information from this paper.

https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/ajpendo.90617.2008?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed#

Jack Chang

Hi,

Ok, thank you for this information.