CUTANEOUS AND VENOUS BLOOD SUGAR CURVES

Blood Sugar Time Curves.

Stimulation of the Sugar-regulating Mechanism as Shown by Duplicate Blood Sugar Curves.*

After the oral administration of glucose, when the concentration of the sugar in the blood is falling, ingestion of a second dose of glucose may result in little or no increase in blood sugar. This occurred in nine out of thirteen experiments conducted by Foster (1). Maclean and de Wesselow (2) had previously reported a single case in which a second dose of glucose produced a curve which was ne...

The comparison of normal venous blood with

  Introduction: Cupping therapy (hejamat) is one of the therapeutic methods used in traditional medicine that it is still common in many of the contemporary societies. In spite of the progress of science, we have less information on the traditional and alternative medicine including cupping.   With the study of mechanism of action of cupping, it will be more convincing for the traditional medic...

Ammonia and Blood Sugar

In 1919 Fosse (6) showed that urea is formed by the oxidation of solutions containing such amounts of glucose and ammonia as are present in the blood. Recently Hynd (9) found that “A 2 per cent solution of glucose containing approximately 60 mg. NH3 showed no optical change at room temperature, but after 24 hours at 50” the rotation fell from +0.87” to +0.29” . . . . Similar results were obtain...

Understanding Guyton's venous return curves.

Based on observations that as cardiac output (as determined by an artificial pump) was experimentally increased the right atrial pressure decreased, Arthur Guyton and coworkers proposed an interpretation that right atrial pressure represents a back pressure restricting venous return (equal to cardiac output in steady state). The idea that right atrial pressure is a back pressure limiting cardia...