Molecular Approaches to Study Control of Glucose Homeostasis

Molecular approaches to disease control.

Recent advances in molecular biology, genomics, and immunology are revolutionizing our approach to managing infectious diseases of humans, livestock, and poultry. One of the most interesting additions to the armamentarium of research focusing on controlling infectious diseases has been a better understanding of how the host's innate immune system recognizes "danger" signals. Additionally, there...

Designing a glycemic control strategy to maintain glucose homeostasis and prevent hypoglycemia for subjects with type 1 diabetes

This paper presents using the fractional PImDn controller module which manipulates insulin infusion rate to maintain normoglycemia in subjects with type 1 diabetes. To prevent severe hypoglycemia, a conventional proportional controller is used to regulate glucagon infusion rate when the blood glucose levels fall below a threshold. Two sets of controller parameters are obtained and evaluated. Fo...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Glycolysis in the control of blood glucose homeostasis

Natriuretic peptide control of energy balance and glucose homeostasis.

Cardiac natriuretic peptides (NP) have recently emerged as metabolic hormones. Physiological stimulation of cardiac NP release as during exercise may contribute to increase fatty acid mobilization from adipose tissue and their oxidation by skeletal muscles. Clinical studies have shown that although very high plasma NP level characterizes cardiac dysfunction and heart failure, a consistently red...