Effect of fasting and glucagon on the residual latent activity of acid phosphatase in rat liver.

: Data are presented on the variation of the residual latent activity of acid phosphatase after hypo-osmotic shock in relation to differences in the functional state of the vacuolar apparatus, as obtained after 24 hours of fasting or treatment with glucagon. It is moreover reported the effect of cycloheximide, which appears able to interfere not only with the glucagon-induced autophagy, but in all likelihood also with the basal autophagic processes.