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Q: Why are nerve cells particularly sensitive to changes in blood glucose concentration?
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How do you find the glucose concentration of a solution?

Glucose concentration strips will work.


What happens to the concentration of glucose in urine as the number of glucose carriers increase?

concentration of glucose in the urine decreases.


When does glucose concentration in urine become zero?

The normal glucose concentration in urine ranges from 0 to 15 mg/dL. The glucose concentration in urine becomes zero when no glucose has spilled over into the urine.


What enzyme changes glucose to frutose?

The enzyme that breaks down sucrose to glucose and fructose is called sucrase.


How do you find the concentration of a solution?

Glucose concentration strips will work.


What is the formula that use to calculate the concentration of glucose in blood by the principle of Beer-Lambert law and application of glucose oxidase?

patients absorbance/absorbance of the standard*concentration of the standard gives you the glucose concentration of the patients sample


Is there the same concentration of glucose when blood goes into the muscle and when it comes out?

Muscle requires glucose, and so there is not the same concentration of glucose in blood entering and exiting a muscle. The exiting blood will be lower in glucose.


Explain how cyclic AMP and catabolite activator protein are affected by glucose concentration?

Cyclic AMP accumulates when the glucose concentration is scarce. If the glucose concentration increases, the cAMP concentration falls, and without it, CAP (catabolite activator portein) detaches from the operon and becomes inactive.


Insulin causes a a decrease in the concentration of blood glucose b an increase in the concentration of blood glucose?

A. A decrease in glucose. Unless your body is as strange as mine. I'm trying to figure out why my glucose increases when I increase my insulin.


What causes loss of glucose in the urine?

Insulin affects the concentration of glucose in the urine.


Normally when the concentration of glucose in the blood falls below a certain level stored glucose reenters the blood until the original concentration of blood glucose is part of the process known as?

homeostasis


What is the result of diffusion and osmosis through nonliving membranes of sac 1 containing 40 percent glucose suspended in 40 percent glucose?

The glucose was able to go through the sac. The glucose went from high concentration to low concentration. The glucose is permeable.