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Blood glucose

Blood glucose

The main sugar that the body makes from the three elements of food--proteins, fats, and carbohydrates--but mostly from carbohydrates. Glucose is the major source of energy for living cells and is carried to each cell through the bloodstream. However, the cells cannot use glucose without the help of insulin.


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Insulin signaling

When glucose is in the blood (like after you eat a meal and you begin to digest the nutrients giving off glucose molecules that then transport ...

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by kolean
Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:58 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Insulin signaling
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Insulin signaling

Does insulin floating in the blood signal to the insulin sensitive tissues like muscle and body fat to prepare to absorb glucose OR is it the Islets of Langerhans that give out the signal directly somhow?

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by rturu
Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:41 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Insulin signaling
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Stomach bloating and weight gain

... and exocytosis/secretes it into the capillaries and is taken into the blood. You want to get the insulin into the blood, and not into the epithelial ... on that side of the cell, or any side of the those cells. They take up glucose (GLUT receptors) that then enters the bloodstream, and the level ...

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by kolean
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:43 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Insulin/glucagon Confusion

... See page 4, last sentence. In my textbook, it shows a diagram where blood glucose level is above the normal range. It shows when this happens alpha cells secrete less ...

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by Joker
Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:03 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Insulin/glucagon Confusion
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Views: 465

Urine infections

... UTIs one on the 23rd of march,tested urine, results came back the same, blood, protein,white cells,glucose,she was told to stop take'n the Trimethoprim and to take Cefalexin 5ML four times a ...

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by mandie99
Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:06 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Urine infections
Replies: 17
Views: 2569
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