News tagged with insulin level

Keeping pets sweet: Treating diabetes in dogs

Diabetes affects not only humans but also animals. As in humans treatment should be based on an understanding of natural fluctuations in blood glucose levels but these are hard to determine. Researchers at the University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sotomayor tells how she deals with diabetes

(AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seven years old and living in the South Bronx when she found she was thirsty all the time. Soon after, she started wetting her bed at night.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple peel makes mice mighty

For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic acid that's found in apple peel.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

In-car device monitors blood sugar for diabetic drivers

People with diabetes and their caregivers know that careful and constant monitoring of their blood sugar levels is critical to managing the disease. But even while driving?

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Micro-RNA blocks the effect of insulin in obesity

(PhysOrg.com) -- German researchers have discovered a new mechanism that leads to the development of type 2 diabetes in obesity.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists link DNA 'end-caps' length to diabetes risk

New evidence has emerged from studies in mice that short telomeres or "caps" at the ends of chromosomes may predispose people to age-related diabetes, according to Johns Hopkins scientists.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Metabolic abnormalities in obese teens may relate to poor diets

Obese teens may feel healthy, but blood tests show they have inflammation, insulin resistance, and high homocysteine levels , researchers report at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New diabetes treatment lowers blood sugar with less need for insulin

Diabetes can result from either a deficiency of insulin (type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes) or decreased sensitivity to insulin (type 2 diabetes). Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a mechanism for ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Women with PCOS benefit from acupuncture and exercise

Acupuncture and physical exercise improve hormone levels and menstrual bleeding pattern in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Artificial pancreas in pregnancy promises fewer diabetes deaths

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an artificial pancreas in pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers uncover potential 'cure' for type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes could be converted to an asymptomatic, non-insulin-dependent disorder by eliminating the actions of a specific hormone, new findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Birch bark ingredient comes with many metabolic benefits

An ingredient found in abundance in birch bark appears to have an array of metabolic benefits, according to new studies in animals that are reported in the January issue of Cell Metabolism. In mice, the compound known as bet ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A body temperature sensor, TRPM2, promotes insulin secretion

The research group led by professor Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Kunitoshi Uchida, National institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Japan, found TRPM2 ion channel in pancreatic beta-cells is important for insulin secretion ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds injectable and oral birth control do not adversely affect glucose and insulin levels

Fasting glucose and insulin levels remain within normal range for women using injectable or oral contraception, with only slight increases among women using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), commonly known as the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

On...off...on...off... The circuitry of insulin-releasing cells

A myriad of inputs can indicate a body's health bombard pancreatic beta cells continuously, and these cells must consider all signals and "decide" when and how much insulin to release to maintain balance in blood sugar, for ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast