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Basic Science – Complications 
and Comorbidities

Lerche S, Brock B, Rungby J et al.

University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

 Diabetes 2008;57:325–31.

Editor’s note: In general, the search for a mechanism to regulate the transfer of glucose across the blood–brain barrier has proved unsuccessful, with plasma glucose levels being the only known factor affecting the glucose transfer rate. In this small study, 18-fluoro-deoxyglucose was used in positron emission tomography to measure glucose uptake during metabolism regionally across the brain in non-diabetic volunteers undergoing pancreatic–pituitary clamps, which controlled plasma glucose levels at 4.5 mmol/L, as well as growth hormone and glucagon levels.

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