Thread: Glucose passing through cell walls
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Old 07-01-2008, 07:14 PM   #6 (permalink)
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you could look at the cartoon here or here for an idea of the action of glucagon in the liver:
it binds its receptor which starts a cascade of actions in the cell which result in the breakdown of glycogen into glucose
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