7 sentences with “glucose”

The level of glucose in the blood must be kept constant, because sugar for the human being is like fuel for the car.

Easily absorbed from the intestines, glucose absorption leads to pancreatic secretion of insulin, which helps transport it to the tissues.

Lactic acid is also produced by muscle metabolism when glucose is broken down for energy release during strenuous exercise where oxygen supply is inadequate.

A team of researchers at Karolinska Hospital, Sweden, has just discovered that glucose infusion during preparatory fasting improves postoperative metabolic status and reduces the stressful state of major surgery.

It could be seen that cocaine drastically lowered glucose consumption in the cerebral cortex and in the mesolimbic system, located inside the brain, which governs emotions and other impulses such as hunger, thirst and sex.

In cases of extreme survival it is necessary to keep the required blood glucose level within normal limits, to use fatty tissue as an energy reserve and not to consume body proteins. All three conditions are met when eating plants containing sugars.

Cocaine addiction "disrupts" brain chemistry in two basic ways: by preventing the organ from being nourished by glucose - the primary energy substance in humans - and by interacting at the molecular level with a "key" neurotransmitter: dopamine, an imbalance of which is linked to serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia.