The brain extracts approximately 50 % of oxygen and 10% of glucose from the arterial blood. The metabolic patterns of the brain differ from muscle, adipose tissue, kidney, and liver in its use of...
Fats are the main source of energy in the human body, they are only mobilized during prolonged periods of starvation from adipose tissue by lipolysis, in the human liver, fatty acids are not transformed...
Synthesis of glucose (and/or glycogen) from non-carbohydrate precursors such as lactate, glucogenic amino acids, glycerol, and propionate. Liver glycogen can meet these needs for only 10-18 hours in the absence of dietary intake of...
The human body contains a system that is responsible for the extraction of oxygen from the air and then transfers it to the blood, then to the cells of the body, this system is...
