Sentences with phrase «cells process glucose»

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The screening tested nearly 500 employees, primarily in search of insulin resistance, a condition that prevents the body from properly processing the hormone that promotes the absorption of glucose from the blood into your cells.

Agave and fructose in general does not spike blood sugar because it goes through your liver damaging it at the same time, glucose is processed by other cells as well and thus it spikes your blood sugar, but fructose is processed just by the liver.

They chose drugs that cut off the cancer's ability to burn glucose and shut down protective processes that help cancer cells survive.

Diabetics have high levels of sugar (glucose) in their blood streams because they don't properly process food into energy and growing more cells.

As fat cells bulge, the body tries to store glucose in other tissues, including the liver, kidney, heart, muscles, and blood vessels, where the rotting process takes hold.

Another method is for cells to throttle back the processing of glucose during lean times by becoming insulin resistant, which blocks insulin from entering the cell and in essence rations the supply of glucose to last longer while also creating a powerful hunger impulse to drive people to find food.

Fiumera works in vivo with fruit flies while Mahler works in vitro using a 3 - D cell - culture model of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to understand how ingesting nanoparticles influences glucose processing and the gut microbiome.

People develop type 2 diabetes over time as their bodies become more and more resistant to the hormone insulin, which is necessary to process the glucose in blood that provides energy for cells, explains Dr. Patti, who is also an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Increased glucose processing has long been thought to inflict damage on the mitochondria (the cell's power generators), which then produce large amounts of reactive oxygen molecules, which in turn leads to kidney disease.

The device works by drawing out glucose from the fluid between cells across hair follicles, which are individually accessed via a miniaturized pixel array platform using a small electric current, in a process called electroosmotic extraction.

Last year, Gladstone researchers discovered that p75NTR was present in the liver and in fat cells, and that it regulates glucose levels in the blood — an important metabolic process.

The pancreas makes a hormone called insulin that processes glucose, moving it from the bloodstream into the body's cells where it is used for energy.

«This is the first demonstration using such a vesicle fusion process for delivering insulin that employs insulin - containing vesicles like those found in a beta cell and can reproduce the beta cell's functions in sensing glucose and responding with insulin «secretion»,» says Zhaowei Chen, lead author on the study.

Glucose -6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency: G6PD is an important element (enzyme) in the glucose oxidation (oxygen utilization) process of red blood cells and for maintaining their normal lifGlucose -6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency: G6PD is an important element (enzyme) in the glucose oxidation (oxygen utilization) process of red blood cells and for maintaining their normal lifglucose oxidation (oxygen utilization) process of red blood cells and for maintaining their normal life span.

Within a cell, cannabinoids control basic metabolic processes such as glucose metabolism [17].

Glucose is the sugar that gets processed in our guts during digestion and can ultimately be used by every cell in our body.

When that process is inhibited, the muscle cells burn more fat and store more glucose as glycogen in theory.

Fasting blood samples were processed on the same day for serum lipids, plasma glucose concentrations, white blood cell (WBC) count, and fibrinogen by the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia.

When you consume sugar or carbohydrates, they must be processed into glucose and shuttled into the cells via a hormone called insulin.

Insulin drives a number of processes, including ferrying glucose out of the blood stream and into cells.

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.

More glucose inside the cells means more energy for various processes.

Every cell in the entire body can process glucose.

This is, of course, to be expected, since the body will begin the process of gluconeogenesis (making of new glucose) in order to supply the brain and certain other parts that need glucose (renal medulla and red blood cells).

However, do not «spill» the carbs over — when the insulin levels and sensitivity are high, any excess of glucose goes to fat cells unless you use it for immediate energy and the post-training recovery process.

Too many sugars and processed carbs cause the body to overproduce insulin, a hormone that escorts glucose into cells and helps regulate high blood sugar.

In 1924, the Nobel Laureate Otto Heinrich Warburg, determined that cancer cells have a dependency on glucose for growth and metastastic processes under hypoxic (low oxygen conditions), using glycolysis

When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into glucose, which is a simple sugar molecule that your cells process for energy.

Once the carbohydrate has worked its way through your digestive system, been reduced to a simple sugar such as glucose, and reached the bloodstream through the processes of absorption, it's taken to the liver where it's either distributed to the cells for energy, or stored for later use.

kicks cell metabolism from processing sugar to glucose to generating ketones and using fat as a cellular fuel..

When blood glucose is low, normal cells switch up to use fats and go on working, in a beautiful adaptive process that we all know and love as «keto flu».

But I spiked up my blood sugar with dextrose, which stopped this process, my body released insulin and my liver and muscle cells started to think they have to store glucose.

Glucose is replenished much faster than glycogen, but as it circulates the blood, it must be moved into the muscle cells through an insulin mediated process in order to be used.

Insulin, which is produced by «beta cells» in the pancreas, helps in the process of moving glucose into the cells of the body where it is converted into fuel.

Glucose, a simple sugar, is the body's main fuel and is thus a critical product of the metabolic process, but the mere presence of glucose isn't enough — it must be moved from the blood to the cells fGlucose, a simple sugar, is the body's main fuel and is thus a critical product of the metabolic process, but the mere presence of glucose isn't enough — it must be moved from the blood to the cells fglucose isn't enough — it must be moved from the blood to the cells for use.

This occus when cells starved for glucose begin to break down fats for energy, a process that creates chemicals called ketones, which make the blood more acidic.

Regardless of food intake levels, diabetic cats lose weight because the cells are unable to process glucose normally.