Diabetes treatment

Diabetes treatment

Diabetes prevention and treatment.

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congenital defect

Health care; Diabetes treatment

Problems or conditions that are present at birth.

Protein complexes on the surface of a cell that allows the cell to join or bind with insulin that is in the blood. When the vrll membrane receptor and insulin bind, the cell takes up glucose (sugar) ...

HLA antigens

Health care; Diabetes treatment

Proteins on the outer part of body cells that are (effectively) unique to that person. HLA types are inherited, and some of them are connected with Type I diabetes in that their presence is a marker ...

enzymes

Health care; Diabetes treatment

Proteins which have the effect of greatly increasing the reaction rate of specific chemical reactions. Reaction rates are controlled by activation energies specific to particular reactions, and ...

dialysis

Health care; Diabetes treatment

Providing kidney function artificially. This requires an artificial kidney (a dialysis machine) and relatively long periods hooked up to the machine every few days. It is not equivalent to a working ...