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- adjective physiology That
counters aregulatory process, especially that counters the action of a regulatoryhormone
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Examples
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It operates in tandem with its counterregulatory hormone glucagon also produced in the pancreas.
Running from the proof: correlation does not mean causation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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It operates in tandem with its counterregulatory hormone glucagon also produced in the pancreas.
Running from the proof: correlation does not mean causation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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The high amounts of glutamate in neuroinflammation might reflect a counterregulatory mechanism that is protective in nature and might be harnessed therapeutically for restricting immunopathology in multiple sclerosis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Francesca Fallarino 2010
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Any time my blood sugar went lower than the low 80s I'd get a fierce counterregulatory response that would give me shakes, a high pulse, and all the classic hypo (or false hypo) symptoms.
Diabetes Update 2010
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A Google Search came up with one site that wrote, without attribution, that HCTZ affects the autonomic nervous system which I know is involved in the counterregulatory response.
Diabetes Update 2010
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Hypoglycemic symptoms and manifestations can be divided into those produced by the counterregulatory hormones (epinephrine / adrenaline and glucagon) triggered by the falling glucose, and the neuroglycopenic effects produced by the reduced brain sugar.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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It does increase insulin, but at the same time in increases the release of glucagon, insulin’s counterregulatory hormone, which offsets the effects of insulin.
Metabolism and ketosis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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