Word: insulin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Part of the body?s protection against famine is insulin resistance. That means that our muscles are not as receptive to insulin, which is critical to moderating blood sugar. To make matters worse, more than half of women who are obese also have insulin resistance. That means their pancreas has to work even harder to produce more insulin so their muscles know it?s there...
...overfed state, the pancreas is forced into an overproduction of insulin because there?s so much food to process, and the pancreas quickly becomes exhausted and cuts down on insulin production. When the pancreas gives up, or slows down production, blood sugar starts to rise. That?s when people get the symptoms of diabetes, including excessive thirst, excessive urination and blurred vision...
Unfortunately, these particular stem cells are already partly specialized, so they might not help Frack's hardened arteries or the insulin-producing cells in his pancreas (though other types of stem cells might). But in principle, he could mine his love handles for cells to repair his damaged liver, to replenish blood cells lost to disease, to fix a damaged heart or to repair missing or deteriorating cartilage. And because the cells would be drawn from his own body, Frack wouldn't have to worry about having his immune system reject them...
Another Sky is not without its faults. One can only take so many saccharine, happy, cloyingly idyllic tracks before going into insulin shock. As light evanescence is followed by more of the same, one yearns for some display of brutally raw feeling. Alas, sweetness and light is all that Altan has to offer, their skilled musical maneuverings failing to stray from the same emotional note. But all things told, while Another Sky may not be the pot of gold at the end of the musical rainbow, it’s still a fine piece o’ work...
Kamen, winner of the 2000 National Technology Medal and creator of a wearable insulin pump and a wheelchair that climbs stairs, has formed a company called ACROS that will craft "motorized, self-propelled, wheeled personal mobility aids, namely wheelchairs, scooters, carts, and chariots," Inside Magazine reported...