BIOLOGY 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Leptin Receptor, Steatomys, Insulin Receptor
26 Sep 2016
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Gha is igf1, insulin is growth factor as well. Gha regulates fat and glucose levels, insulin is regulating glucose, igf1 and insulin will down regulate growth hormone. Circadian rhythm of food preferences, in animals when they wake up in the morning they want carbs in the morning, food preference cycle but there are exceptions, Older men are fed with gh are low, the older man that fasted his gh are higher, but in old age gh should be low, so neat way to increase gh, Mice and humans don"t regulate the fat deposition, if you have a mouse and starve it it will also up regulate igf1, in humans gh elevated udder starvation, in mouse gh suppressed even though igf1 is higher, Larger animals can maintain larger amount of fat and mice don"t, and so in humans release fat from stores, and so in mouse gh release not as important, igf1 important way to manage energy.
