Their approach does not involve attempting to reduce mortality by controlling the glucose level; rather, they use its response to a glucose bolus as an index of physiological parameters such as plasma volume and cardiac output.
The gene product, a glucose transporter, is directly relevant for the physiological ability to use glucose; its gene expression is affected by mutation of the gene for the AbrB-type transcription factor Sll0822.
In her article for The New York Times, physician, Abigail Zuger, described the importance of insulin as follows: Without insulin the body is unable to use glucose, its primary fuel … sugar and starch in the diabetic's diet turn into poison, clogging the bloodstream with unusable glucose: the glucose is eliminated in sweet-tasting urine as the body's cells literally starve in the midst of plenty.
Without insulin the body is unable to use glucose, its primary fuel … sugar and starch in the diabetic's diet turn into poison, clogging the bloodstream with unusable glucose: the glucose is eliminated in sweet-tasting urine as the body's cells literally starve in the midst of plenty.
Without insulin the body is unable to use glucose, its primary fuel.
Glucose sensors using glucose oxidase or glucose dehydrogenase have also been developed for clinical use.
Blood glucose levels were measured using glucose strips (blood glucose monitoring system; FreeStyle, NIPRO, Tokyo, Japan).
As peripheral tissues do not use glucose, starvation is manifested by glucose intolerance.
The defining feature of a glucose-sensing neuron is that it can use glucose not simply as a fuel but as a signaling molecule that regulates its activity.
Public health regulators told consumers not to use certain glucose testing strips from Roche, Abbott Laboratories and other companies in combination with dialysis and other biologic drugs.
