1.   And some animal studies have linked high levels of dioxin with a reduction in glucose metabolism in fat and other tissues.

2.   Experiments by Sonksen and others have suggested that hyperinsulinaemic clamps can increase the rate of glucose metabolism up to twelve-fold.

3.   It can lower cholesterol, reduce blood pressure, improve glucose metabolism, burn body fat and strengthen the heart.

4.   Prolonged exposure to stress, researchers have found, can lead to abnormalities in immune function and glucose metabolism, and destroy brain cells involved in memory.

5.   So important is glucose metabolism to animals that its regulation is likely to be a complex matter.

6.   That interferes with glucose metabolism and the action of insulin, the hormone that enables cells to use glucose for energy.

7.   The gene under study is part of an enzyme, known as pyruvate dehydrogenase, which controls an important step in glucose metabolism.

8.   Though worms and people differ, they share many fundamental processes, and the link between glucose metabolism, free radicals and aging may be one of them.

9.   Weindruch and Prolla believe most of these changes can be explained in terms of the chemical damage caused by glucose metabolism.

10.   With that off-switch removed, glucose metabolism can proceed.