Nikolas
Created page with "This topic describes the biochemical changes in diabetes. The deficiency of insulin explains most of these changes. Many glucose transporter proteins (GLUT) exist, but GLUT4 is the only one that is insulin dependent. It is found in myocardium, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. When insulin binds to the insulin receptor on these cells will intracellular vesicles that contain GLUT4 be transported to the membrane, so that the glucose transporter is embedded into the memb..."