Category: Endocrinology

Reviewing Diabetes: 1. How insulin reduces blood glucose

.Reading time 4 minutes.

The role of glucose in the body is primarily to maintain glucose homeostasis by signalling the removal of excess glucose from the blood stream. This is achieved through the conversion of glucose to glycogen in the muscular and hepatic tissues. This is the process through which glucose is removed from the blood plasma posterior to […]

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Reviewing Diabetes: 0. A Basis for Understanding

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Having recently completed a comprehensive review of diabetes, I have been both fascinated, by our current understanding of the complex biology underlying this disease, and horrified, by the extent to which this disease affects our society and its increase in prevalence. I intend, therefore, to share some of my findings, available in the biological literature, […]

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