This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved 1 Article Hepatocytes of Wistar and Sprague Dawley rats differ significantly in their central metabolism † Richa Garg, Elmar Heinzle, Fozia Noor* Biochemical Engineering Institute, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. *corresponding author Dr. Fozia Noor Biochemical engineering Institute, Campus A1.5 Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Email: fozia.noor@mx.uni-saarland.de † This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: [10.1002/jcb.26255] Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article. Received 28 December 2016; Revised 8 June 2017; Accepted 30 June 2017 Journal of Cellular Biochemistry This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DOI 10.1002/jcb.26255