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glucostatic mechanism

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | 218 words | Copyright

glucostatic mechanism A theory that appetite depends on the difference between arterial and venous concentrations of glucose; when the difference falls low enough, the hunger centres in the hypothalamus are stimulated.

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