Sunday, April 15, 2012

Lowering blood sugar with a new hormone

Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood. There is also another hormone that can do this as well, a newly found hormone. It essentially can the the same job as insulin can by sending the glucose out of the bloodstream and into muscle. This hormone comes from fat stem cells which could lead to a new treatment on lowering blood sugar and possibly improve metabolisms.



This new finding came from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. What they did to come to these results was manipulate fat stem cells in mice. They found that the mice showed very low blood sugar levels because their muscles were taking glucose by twice the usual rate. This also led to the discovery of  mice having lipodysteophy had a generally low blood pressure, which in most cases would have high blood sugar and possibly diabetes.

 
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2 comments:

  1. gabbykApril 15, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    This is very interesting discovery that can eventually help those affected by diabetes. By manipulating the fat cells in mice and coming to results that included low blood pressure can also help to cure the effects of both of these debilitating diseases that are often interconnected. With the rampant rise of obesity and unhealthy foods leading to increases in diabetes this may prove to be beneficial into the future.

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  2. sindoniaApril 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM

    This is awesome, if this can be replicated and put into action for people that have diabetes it could actually eliminate the need for those affected to have to take insulin at all.

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