Mikeland
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Newly diagnosed diabetes patients often get their C-peptide levels measured, to find if they are type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. The reason that the C-peptide levels are measured instead of the insulin levels themselves is because insulin concentration in the portal vein ranges from two to ten times higher than in the peripheral circulation. The liver extracts about half the insulin reaching it (the plasma), but this varies with the nutritional state. The pancreas of patients with type 1 diabetes is unable to produce insulin and they will therefore usually have a decreased level of C-peptide, while C-peptide levels in type 2 patients is normal or higher than normal. Measuring C-peptide in patients injecting insulin can help to determine how much of their own natural insulin these patients are still producing
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| epica
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I decided to post another Q
Eukaryotic proteins that exist as a nonmembrane -associated ,glycosylated,disulphide-linked dimer in the mature form are generally found in ?
Cytoplasm
Extracellular space
Mit.matrix
Nuclear matrix
Nuclear pore
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| new_n_lost
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Cytoplasm
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Ans is B
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| labtech+
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cytoplasm
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