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    What are non-hormonal mechanisms of blood glucose regulation?

    Hello everyone, I am quite confused about glucose metabolism so I was hoping someone could answer the following questions? - What are "non-hormonal" mechanisms of control of glucose levels? - What are the acute and chronic effects or glucagon and insulin? - What role does adipose tissue play in...
    • MintStorm
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    • adipose blood glucose regulation glucagon glucose glucose-fatty acid cycle glucose-sparing glycogen insulin ketoacidosis randle cycle
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    Glut2/Glut4

    - How come glut2 is said to be insulin independent if it senses the release of insulin to store glut2 in hepatocytes? - I understand that glut4 has a Km similar to the concentration of glucose so it gets saturated fast but how come glucose influx can still occur if the glut4 receptors are...
    • deleted783484
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    • biochemistry biology glucose glut2 glut4 help kaplan mcat mcat 2015 2016 medical school
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    Quick Hb1Ac question

    Hb1Ac is generally measured in mmol/mol, although often also in percentages. What I don't get is why the mmol/mol isn't simply a tenfold of the percentage. mmol/mol basically means 1/1000th right? And percentage means 1/100th. Or am I missing something?