and J. 0. ANVIK. 1976. Effect of digestible energy intake on glucose synthesis in reindeer and caribou. Can. J. Zool. 54: 737-751. Glucose parameters were estimated by multicompartmental analysis after the single injection of [U-'4C]glucose in pen-fed reindeer and caribou. During the rut, the plasma concentration, pool size, space, total entry rate, irreversible loss, and glucose turnover time of male reindeer and caribou declined; all parameters increased significantly after the rut ended and feeding had begun again. In female reindeer and caribou the lowest estimates of glucose pool, space, total entry rate, and irreversible loss were noted during midpregnancy (February-April). During early lactation (May-June) significant increases were noted in total entry rate, irreversible loss, and the plasma concentration of glucose.For non-lactating reindeer and caribou, inflections in relationships between glucose total entry rate and irreversible loss with digestible energy intake were noted at a daily digestible intake of about 195 k~a l l W~.~* (where W0.75= metabol~c body weight); three times more glucose was synthesized per unit digestible energy intake above the polnt of inflection than was synthesized below it. Per unit of protein intake, total entry rate and irreversible loss of glucose for males exceeded that of the females by 4 to 5 mg/W0-75 per minute. In female reindeer and caribou a close correlation was noted between the glucose irreversible loss and total entry rate. Glucose resynthesis was constant at 1.5 mglW0,7S per minute. MCEWAN, E. H., P. WHITEHEAD, R. G. WHITE et J. 0. ANVIK. 1976. Effect of digestible energy intake on glucose synthesis in reindeer and caribou. Can. J. Zool. 54: 737-751.On a estimC Ies param&trcs du glucose par analyse des compartiments apris une injection unique de g l u c~s e~-~~C ] chez des rennes et des caribous gardis en captiviti. Duran! le rut, la concentrationde glucose d a m le plasma. la taille du pool. I'espace glucosique. le taux des entrees totales. la perte it-rkversible et le lauxde remplacement du glucose dlminuent chez les caribous et les rennes miles; tmrq les pmmktres subissent une augmentation significative aprks le rut. au moment ou les animanx recornmencent h ~e nOUTTIT. Chez les femelles, c'est au milieu de la grossesse (fevrier a avril) qu'on enregistre les estimis les plus faibIes du pool, de I'espace gtucosique, du taux den entree5 totales et de la perte irriversible. Au debut de la lactation (mai-.iuin), on enrekstre des augmentations significatives du taux des entrees totales. de la perte irreversible et de la concentration de glucose danr le plasma. Chez l e~ caribous et les renncs qui n'allaitent pas. la relation entre le taux desentrees totdes et la perk irriversible du glucose, d'une part, et I'ingestion d'knergie digestible, d'autre part. subit une inflexion lorsque le total de I'inergle digestible est d'environ 195 kcal/WO 75 (OU W0.75 = le poids mitaboIique du corps); au-dessus du point d'inflexion. il y a trois fois plus d e glucose synthetise pa...