A certain amount of the glucose is
absorbed by the liver cells and converted to glycogen, which is your body's reserve energy source which is activated when you have low glucose levels.
Not exact matches
By hindering LMPTP, the drug reawakens insulin receptors on the surface of
cells — especially in the
liver — which normally
absorb excess sugar from the blood when they detect insulin.
The remainder are
absorbed by other
cells, including those in the
liver, spleen and kidneys.
While glucose is
absorbed directly into the blood from the digestive tract, to be used as energy
by our
cells, fructose must first be processed
by the
liver, where is shunted into the metabolic pathway that leads to fat synthesis.