A common procedure for determining the effectiveness of compounds as precursors of glucose in mammals is to starve the animal until the liverglycogen stores are depleted and then administer the compound in question. A substrate that leads to a net increase in liver glycogen is termed glucogenic, because it must first be converted to glucose 6-phosphate. Show by means of known enzymatic reactions which of the following substances are glucogenic.
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