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PET-Positron Emission Tomography

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Q: What method of studying the brain involves the insertion of radioactive glucose (sugar) into a vein?
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What method of studying the brain involves the insertion of radioactive glucose into a vein?

PET - Positron Emission Tomography


How many molecules of radioactive alcohol are formed from each molecule of glucose?

over 9000


A culture of bacteria growing aerobically is fed glucose containing radioactive carbon and is then examined During the citric acid cycle radioactive would first appear in?

NADH


What is is function of glucagon?

It involves in balancing glucose level.It increases the level.


Which process involves making glucose without energy from sunlight?

Chemosynthesis


The Cori cycle involves the interconversion of?

A very simplistic answer is: lactates are converted by glycolysis in glucose; the process is reversible.


Which proses involves making glucose without light energy from the sun?

Chemosynthesis


What is the reaction called that involves glucose and takes places in all the cells of the body?

respiration


What does the first process of glycolosis produce?

Glycolosis is a metabolic reaction which converts glucose into pyruvate. The first step involves the phopsphate transfer from ATP group to glucose, thus formin glucose 6 phosphate.


The second step of glycolysis involves the conversion of ______ into?

glucose-6-phosphate . . . fructose-6-phosphate


Which process involves making glucose without energy from the sunlight?

This chemical process is photosynthesis.


What tool is used in a hospital to look at blood flow in a brain?

Usually a PET scanner (positron emission tomography scanner) with radioactive glucose. Note: following this test you will be slightly radioactive for about 10 to 12 hours.