Small decrements in systemic glucose provoke increases in hypothalamic blood flow prior to the release of counterregulatory hormones

Diabetes

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 448-452

  Page, Kathleen A ^a   Arora, Jagriti ^a   Qiu, Maolin ^a   Relwani, Rachna ^a   Constable, R Todd ^a   Sherwin, Robert S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ADRENALIN; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63249134830     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db08-1224     Document Type: Article

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