News tagged with glucose utilization
Indications of Alzheimer's disease may be evident decades before first signs of cognitive impairment
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease have lower glucose utilization in the brain than those with normal cognitive function, and that those decreased levels may be ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Noninvasively seeing a clear picture of immune cell function in vivo
Immune cell function in an individual can be monitored noninvasively in the clinic using a technique known as a PET scan.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 17, 2010 |
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Dessert on your mind? Your muscles may be getting the message
Even the anticipation of sweets may cause our muscles to start taking up more blood sugar, say researchers reporting in the December issue of Cell Metabolism. That message is delivered via neurons in the brain's hypothalamus contai ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Does sugar feed cancer?
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have uncovered new information on the notion that sugar "feeds" tumors. The findings may also have implications for other diseases such as diabetes. The research ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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