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Insulin (from Latin insula, "island", as it is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas) is a polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. Apart from being the primary effector in carbohydrate homeostasis, it has effects on fat metabolism. It can change the liver's ability to release fat stores. Insulin's concentration (more or less, presence or absence) has extremely widespread effects throughout the body.
Insulin is used medically in some forms of diabetes mellitus. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus depend on exogenous insulin (commonly injected subcutaneously) for their survival because of an absolute deficiency of the hormone; patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have either relatively low insulin production or insulin resistance or both, and a non-trivial fraction of type 2 diabetics eventually require insulin administration when other medications become inadequate in controlling blood glucose levels.
Insulin has a molecular weight of 5.808 kDa. It has the empirical formula C257 H383 N65 O77 S6.
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My blood sugar is over 500 again, fml. /sleeps until the insulin works, ftlog
tacce (tacce) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:34:22 -0000
My blood sugar is over 500 again, fml. /sleeps until the insulin works, ftlog
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@MattDunnigan better. She's having diabetic episodes and they are having to give her insulin.
MrsBreakdowns (Angel Schreiner) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:56:19 -0000
@MattDunnigan better. She's having diabetic episodes and they are having to give her insulin.
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