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insulin

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Insulin (from the Latin , insula meaning island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets , and by the Brockmann body in some teleost fish . It has important effects on the metabolism of carbohydrates , fats and protein by promoting ...

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n. A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism.

Usage examples of insulin.

I gave him the invoices and explained the significance of insulin and collagenase, and the way they could be ordered.

The company that had sent insulin and collagenase had had similar headings.

Unfortunately, the alcohol extraction also removes the phytoestrogens, which are beneficial for promoting estrogen-like activity and decreasing insulin response.

Water extraction of soy flour produces a soy protein isolate that contains more than 90 percent protein by weight, and retains more of the phytoestrogens, which are beneficial for promoting estrogen-like activity and decreasing insulin response.

The diabetologist makes sure to let us know a week in advance when a patient is going home so we can teach the patient about his insulin injections.

Unfortunately, the higher amounts of carbohydrates in these little extras will elevate your insulin and shoot you right out of the Zone.

The excess insulin has a disastrous effect on our waistlines: it causes our fat cells to store extra calories, whether from proteins, fats, or carbohydrates, in the form of body fat.

Since fruits and vegetables are low-density carbohydrates, it is very difficult to overconsume them, and hence difficult to overproduce insulin.

But even complex carbohydrates like bread and potatoes have a high glycemic index and trigger a rush of insulin, while simple carbohydrates like fructose do not.

The total glycemic load of a meal will determine the amount of insulin released after a meal.

This insulinase sees to it that no insulin remains to push the blood glucose level too low.

In the same study, overweight but nondiabetic individuals had a 40 percent decrease in their elevated insulin levels.

He grew up keeping his blood sugars under control through insulin, diet, and exercise, and led a relatively normal life until he was past 30, long enough to prove that doctor, the one overheard outside his hospital room when he as nine, dead wrong.

I was not well up in medical discoveries, but everybody knew about insulin and how Banting and Best evolved it in a shed on the Toronto campus.

It was reported in 1963 that the parathyroid produces a second hormone, calcitonin, acting in opposition to tbe parathyroid hormone, as insulin acts in opposition to glucagon.