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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Our website will focus on INSULIN.. Insulin is a hormone that can be produced in the human body, by beta cells within the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. This hormone is required for the regulation of blood glucose or sugar levels. Cells will not be able to uptake the glucose present in the bloodstreams if there is lack of insulin. Therefore, insulin is very important to us.
Failure of glucose uptake will lead to excessive glucose in the bloodstreams and as a result leads to a disease known as diabetes mellitus. There are two types of diabetes mellitus, type I and II respectively. Type I refers to the inability to produce the insulin hormone while type II is referred to as malfunction of the insulin hormone where the insulin fails to work.
In the mid-20th century, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported approximately 77 million people worldwide have diabetes. A partial or complete lack of insulin causes diabetes, which, untreated, is often fatal by the teenage years. Furthermore, it can be observed that there is an increasing prevalence of diabetes in Singapore. A recent statistics last recorded, has showed that diabetes is one of the top 10 diseases that results in the most number of deaths.
When insulin was first discovered, doctors finally had means to offer patients a nearly normal quality of life. But since insulin injections were expensive and most diabetic patients were unable to afford the cost, and without an effective purification for isolating insulin, it quickly became necessary to increase insulin production.
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