Mostly a bookmarking post here. I wanted to share this link: http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/pancreas/insulin_phys.html
I think it's a pretty good summary of insulin's actions vis a vis glucose transport, metabolism and fat tissue.
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Hey Insulin-Sane
ReplyDeleteHere is another source of nice physiological data, together with references and some pretty pics (mostly good). http://www.medbio.info/
BTW I guess NostrilDamus (Damned with faint Nose?) has lost his sense of smell for the difference between a worthwhile Conjecture and the other kind. I guess s/he follows in the footsteps of their almost NameSake whose prognostications have had as much predictive value as the forged Protocols of Zion!
Mind you I am also reminded of the Duchess' remark in Alice in Wonderland:
"he only does it to annoy
because he knows it teases"!!