{"id":21983,"date":"2017-07-04T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21983"},"modified":"2017-07-04T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T23:00:19","slug":"biology-cells-that-dont-require-insulin-to-import-glucose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-cells-that-dont-require-insulin-to-import-glucose\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology:  cells that don&#8217;t require insulin to import glucose"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring biology, insulin is bound to come up.  The tutor shares a discovery he made today.<\/h1>\n<p>Apparently, not all body cells require insulin to import glucose from the blood.  I first read that brain and liver cells don&#8217;t.  Next, I discovered a resource on facebook that suggests not only those, but also red blood cells, skeletal muscles engaged in exercise, and kidney cells can use glucose from the blood without insulin.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivo.colostate.edu\/hbooks\/pathphys\/endocrine\/pancreas\/insulin_phys.html\">www.vivo.colostate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/medical-e-library\/mnemonics-tissues-which-dont-need-insulin-for-glucose-uptake\/165078823556536\/\">www.facebook.com\/notes\/medical-e-library<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, insulin is bound to come up. The tutor shares a discovery he made today. Apparently, not all body cells require insulin to import glucose from the blood. I first read that brain and liver cells don&#8217;t. Next, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-cells-that-dont-require-insulin-to-import-glucose\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology:  cells that don&#8217;t require insulin to import glucose<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[2392],"class_list":["post-21983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-which-cells-dont-require-insulin-to-use-glucose-from-the-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21985,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions\/21985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}