Insulin Tutorial 4-1 |
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The kidney can be of great importance in the regulation of the blood glucose level |
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As the blood flows through the kidney the glucose is filtered into the primary urine. Under the conditions of a normal blood sugar level all the glucose is passed back into the blood, so that the final urine does not contain any glucose. |
Even when the blood glucose level is as high as 160 mg/dl (8.9 mmol/l) the kidney can usually reabsorb all the glucose, so that no glucose appears in the urine. |
The material in this on-line Diabetes / Insulin Tutorial has been drawn from a number of different sources.
However the original Web-based version can be found at the AIDA Website at: http://www.2aida.org/tutorial.