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+ | <h1>Attributions</h1><br> | ||
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+ | <b><font size="4"> Insulin: Basic Background </font></b><br> | ||
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+ | <i><u><font size="3">• </font>What is the role of Insulin in the Human body?</u></i> | ||
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+ | Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that removes glucose from the blood. In healthy individuals, excess glucose is readily removed from the blood stream by a proportional production of insulin. In persons with diabetes mellitus however; the body is either resistant to insulin, or it has a reduced capacity to produce insulin. Those individuals require an external source of insulin. | ||
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+ | <i><u><font size="3">• </font>Why are we expressing human Insulin?</u></i> | ||
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+ | The ability to produce recombinant human Insulin cheaply has long been a lucrative goal. There are millions of people worldwide who are dependent on Insulin derived from production methods that make the product expensive -and further yet- potentially dangerous.Our team thinks that the current production methods for human Insulin are inefficient and can be optimized by being expressed in Pichia pastoris. | ||
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