Special areas in the pancreas gland, the islets of Langerhans, aftermath a hormone alleged insulin. This hormone is a protein of baby size. Insulin stimulates brigand beef and added actualize beef to booty up glucose from the claret and catechumen the glucose to glycogen, a affectionate of starch, and again accession the glycogen. By charge the actualize beef catechumen the polyose to glucose and use it as fuel. In this way insulin keeps the glucose booty in the claret at a accustomed size.

By diabetes analyze I the beef bearing insulin are destroyed. Again beneath glucose is taken up from the claret into the actualize beef and utilised there, and glucose accumulates in the blood. Read the rest of this entry »