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Old 07-02-2008, 04:54 PM   #8 (permalink)
LisaS
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Only liver glycogen is broken down to glucose that is released to the blood stream - muscle glycogen is used locally and glucose is not released to the blood stream (AFAIK muscle depolymerization of glycogen into glucose is need driven and not facilitated by glucagon - but that's going from memory)
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