insulin

/in-suh-lin, ins-yuh-/US // ˈɪn sə lɪn, ˈɪns yə- //UK // (ˈɪnsjʊlɪn) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, that regulates the metabolism of glucose and other nutrients.
- : Pharmacology. any of several commercial preparations of this substance, each of which allows a particular rate of absorption into the system: genetically engineered or obtained from the pig or ox pancreas, and used in the treatment of diabetes to restore the normal ability of the body to utilize sugars and other carbohydrates.

Examples

In fact, eating too much protein can lead to high levels of insulin and ammonia in the blood.
This, despite the fact that insulin levels on the low-fat diet were, Hall told me, “through the roof.”
Nanci, a retired X-ray technologist, administered his oxygen and insulin treatments.
Conventional insulin injections have fairly narrow windows in which they can be taken to work properly, but patients can take Lyumjev anytime within 20 minutes of starting a meal.
Nigrin describes how the cloud allows one of Boston Children’s Hospital’s partners, Israeli medical technology developer DreaMed Diabetes, to “inject AI smarts” into remote insulin management.
Once we eat, insulin (which regulates the breakdown of fat) increases in our body.
And, according to some research, higher insulin levels have been shown to suppress fat metabolism by up to 22 percent.
In addition, low fat/high carb diets lower protective “good” cholesterol and raise insulin.
For example, I cannot imagine trying to treat a diabetic patient without insulin, or an asthmatic patient without bronchodilators.
But others say that overeating carbohydrates causes insulin to surge and essentially drives fat storage.
Kroger said that the Martian metabolism must be like Terran (Earth-type) metabolism, only with no pancreas to make insulin.
It is as if some men would rather die than use insulin and those who did use it became outcasts!
Diabetes takes two forms: juvenile onset (or insulin-dependent) and adult onset (or noninsulin-dependent) diabetes.
The first type starts in childhood or young adulthood, and is caused by the body's failure to produce enough insulin.
Excess insulin leads to low blood sugar (literally, hypoglycemia).

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Biochemistry. a polypeptide hormone, produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, that regulates the metabolism of glucose and other nutrients.
- : Pharmacology. any of several commercial preparations of this substance, each of which allows a particular rate of absorption into the system: genetically engineered or obtained from the pig or ox pancreas, and used in the treatment of diabetes to restore the normal ability of the body to utilize sugars and other carbohydrates.

Examples

In fact, eating too much protein can lead to high levels of insulin and ammonia in the blood.

This, despite the fact that insulin levels on the low-fat diet were, Hall told me, “through the roof.”

Nanci, a retired X-ray technologist, administered his oxygen and insulin treatments.

Conventional insulin injections have fairly narrow windows in which they can be taken to work properly, but patients can take Lyumjev anytime within 20 minutes of starting a meal.

Nigrin describes how the cloud allows one of Boston Children’s Hospital’s partners, Israeli medical technology developer DreaMed Diabetes, to “inject AI smarts” into remote insulin management.

Once we eat, insulin (which regulates the breakdown of fat) increases in our body.

And, according to some research, higher insulin levels have been shown to suppress fat metabolism by up to 22 percent.

In addition, low fat/high carb diets lower protective “good” cholesterol and raise insulin.

For example, I cannot imagine trying to treat a diabetic patient without insulin, or an asthmatic patient without bronchodilators.

But others say that overeating carbohydrates causes insulin to surge and essentially drives fat storage.

Kroger said that the Martian metabolism must be like Terran (Earth-type) metabolism, only with no pancreas to make insulin.

It is as if some men would rather die than use insulin and those who did use it became outcasts!

Diabetes takes two forms: juvenile onset (or insulin-dependent) and adult onset (or noninsulin-dependent) diabetes.

The first type starts in childhood or young adulthood, and is caused by the body's failure to produce enough insulin.

Excess insulin leads to low blood sugar (literally, hypoglycemia).