This means that your pancreas is making enough insulin, but your cells are not able to use it. When your cells don’t get the sugar they need, your pancreas works harder at first to make more insulin. But after a while, your pancreas stops being able to make enough insulin. High ...
Adenosine signalling has long been a target for drug development, with adenosine itself or its derivatives being used clinically since the 1940s. In addition, methylxanthines such as caffeine have profound biological effects as antagonists at adenosine receptors. Moreover, drugs such as dipyridamole ...
The tissue sample will be sent to a lab to be tested for cancer. Genomic sequencing tests may show which cells are causing cancer. This can help your provider choose which medicine to give you.How is pancreatic cancer treated?Medicines may be given to decrease pain or other symptoms. You ...
The kidneys are one of the major target organs for ALDOSTERONE, and excessive secretion of ALDOSTERONE can lead to increased reabsorption by renal tubular epithelial cells, resulting in hypertension and kidney damage. ALDOSTERONE antagonists can reduce glomerular filtration pressure and tubular reabsorption,...
There are times when it could benefit you to seek a doctor's opinion. Keep the following in mind: Getting more sleep may not be a good weight loss plan. Often, the most effective way to lose weight is highly personalized and includes more than improving your sleep schedule. If you ...
The penumbra, therefore, represents the main therapeutic target for acute ischemia therapies. There are many pathogenic mechanisms which contribute to the cell death cascades experienced during ischemia, such as energy failure, elevation of intracellular calcium, excitotoxicity and spreading depression, ...
These hormones make cells more resistant to insulin. As the placenta grows larger in the second and third trimesters, it secretes more of these hormones, making it even harder for insulin to do its job. Normally, the pancreas responds by producing enough extra insulin to overcome this ...
Blood sugar target levels for people without diabetes In a person without diabetes, the body makes enough insulin to bring down the blood sugar after a meal. There is enough insulin made by the islet cells in the pancreas to deal with blood sugar. The insulin that is made by the islet ce...
Sperm cells are housed in such a sticky, viscous liquid so that everything it needs to successfully make it to the end goal, which is to fertilize an egg, is readily available along the way. Though many sperm, if any, do not make it to the end goal, they still travel by upwards of...
How are DNA replication and transcription different? Explain why in PCR the precise length of a target DNA sequence is not amplified until the third polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle. Explain DNA replication When during the process of PCR are the target sequences generated? How i...