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liver & muscle are the main areas of storage of glucose. liver makes glucose readily available to rest of the body while muscle keeps the glucose to itself. what does the muscle not have which the liver does? what if: 1) liver cannot make the glucose ready when the need arises. what is the disease called ? and what is the deficiency? is the liver now behaving like muscle? 2) muscle cannot use its stored glucose for its own purposes..name the disease.

  #2

1-von Gierke disease, def of glucose 6-phosphatase

2-McArdle disease, def of muscle phosphorylase


Edited by Thunderball65 on 11/02/05 - 08:09 PM

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correct ....







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