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The effect of malnutrition on insulin binding to rat erythrocytes
1Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
The British Journal of Nutrition
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
Insulin binding to erythrocyte receptors was compared in malnourished and control rats. Percentage specific insulin binding to malnourished rat erythrocytes was significantly lower than to control erythrocytes (P less than 0.001). The low insulin binding in the malnourished rat erythrocytes was accompanied by low insulin receptor affinity (P = 0.035).