REGULATION OF BLOOD GLUCOSE IN THE RIVER LAMREY: THE POSSIBLE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE OF INSULIN AND HYPERGLYCEMIC HORMONES

摘要: Publisher Summary The study of the metamorphosing lampreys or adult in their eating phase at sea is important to reveal whether insulin significance long term maintenance change metabolic patterns, corresponding changes feeding from suspension larva ectoparasitic life and finally starvation period maturing lamprey mature lamprey. river enter rivers autumn; same time, they stop feeding. Their digestive tract gradually undergoes atrophy, lose weight, body length decreases. This chapter defines role hormonal regulation blood glucose fact that release elicited by injections amino acids, but not glucose, indicates it regulates protein perhaps fat metabolism rather than carbohydrate starving lampreys, which mainly utilize reserves.