BIOC 406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Potassium Channel, Glucokinase, Glut2

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Insulin is released into blood from pancreaec b-cells when there is lots of glucose in the blood. Glucagon is released into blood from pancreaec a-cells when there is likle glucose in the blood. If you have a high concentraeon of glucose, it goes through glut2, which has a very low a nity for glucose. Glucose doesn"t go into a pancreaec b-cell unless the concentraeons of glucose are very high. Glucokinase phosphorylates it and it goes through glycolysis, and raises the level of atp in the cell. Atp binds to and inhibits a potassium channel (atp-sensieve potassium channel). Normally the concentraeon of sodium is high outside the cell and the concentraeon of potassium is high inside the cell. The membrane poteneal of a cell is negaeve. If you start accumulaeng potassium in the cell, the cell will become depolarized. This depolarizaeon causes voltage-gated calcium channels to open and ca 2+ to ow into the cell.

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