Glucagon increases the production of glucose by increasing glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in the liver, and by reducing glycogenesis and glycolysis. The release of glucagon in response to food ...

A new pathway for regulation of glucose production in response to insulin and nutrients has been proposed in a study in mice published in Nature Medicine. The increase in insulin levels that occurs ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, No. 8 (Feb. 23, 2010), pp. 3441-3446 (6 pages) The livers of insulin-resistant, diabetic mice manifest ...

Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a new study. The authors note that this metabolic flexibility may be ...

Research has shown that as liver cancer develops, tumor cells lose the ability to produce and release glucose into the bloodstream. The change might aid cancer-cell growth and proliferation by helping ...

Barcelona: Having high fasting glucose levels is one of the most perplexing characteristics of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. This is because the liver produces glucose in these insulin-resistant ...

Differential centrifugation and Percoll-gradient centrifugation of protoplast lysates of suspension-cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) yielded pure amyloplasts. Contamination of the ...

Despite improvements in their nutritional management, most premature and low birth weight infants have experienced growth faltering by discharge. Many remain small to adulthood and are at an increased ...

The most significant developments in our knowledge of this mechanism are now presented in a review paper that was published in the journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism. In the battle against ...