Summary: Reevaluation of lumped and rate constants is necessary when Sokoloff's 2-deoxyglucose (DO) method is used to measure glucose utilization in pathological tissue. We describe here a modification of Sokoloff's lumped constant measurement that permits simultaneous estimation of both lumped and rate constants from a single animal experiment. A subcutaneous tumor model (AA ascites tumor) was used for measurement of these constants with a procedure similar to Sokoloff's that kept the plasma tracer concentration constant. Measured con stants were as follows: lumped constant, 0.654 ± 0.081; kj, 0.196 ± 0.038 min-I; k'!J, 0.262 ± 0.067 min-I; kj, 0.117 ± 0.044 min -I. These constants were used to quan tify glucose utilization in the implanted brain tumor. To test the validity of this method, we compared a fractionThe 2-deoxyglucose (DG) method originally de veloped by Sokoloff et al. (1977) for measurement of the local cerebral metabolic rate for glucose is widely applied in animal studies employing the au toradiographic technique and in human studies em ploying positron emission tomography (P ET).When applied to pathological tissue, this method requires reevaluation of the lumped and rate con stants that appear in the operational equation (Eq. 1, below) for quantitative measurement of the glu cose utilization rate (Sokoloff, 1979). However, their measurement is only occasionally performed, as it requires a number of matched animals and the application of a complex mathematical operational equation on the time course of tissue and blood