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On the Web
- Pump Wear Inc. - Speciality clothing and items for children and adults who wear the insulin pump.
- Insulin Pump Therapy - Presents the use of an insulin pump. How it compares to injections, dealing with a child's school, and provides links to related products. English and Spanish.
- Adjusting to an Insulin Pump - Personal experience switching to insulin pump treatment for diabetes. Shows details of diet and insulin during the first four days. Includes photos.
- Animas Corporation - Offering insulin pumps and accessories, including decorative covers.
- Disetronic Direct - Offers insulin pumps and supplies.
- Insulin Pumpers - Provides support and information for adults and children with diabetes and their families interested in insulin pump therapy. Find links to their UK and Canadian site. Includes a variety of languages to choose from.
- Insulin Pumpers Canada - Promotes insulin pump therapy and helps users by providing support, education, information and advocacy for people with diabetes and their families.
- Kids R Pumping - Learn about the insulin pump, and some kids and teens who use it.
- Pump Expeditions - Solve the mystery with Zack and experience what life would be like on an insulin pump.
- Running For Pumps - Fundraising site to obtain insulin pumps for children in the UK with diabetes.
Wikipedia Articles
- Insulin analog - An insulin analog is an altered insulin, different from the insulin secreted by the human pancreas, but still available to the human body for performing the same action as human insulin. Through genetic engineering of the underlying DNA, the amino acid sequence of insulin can be changed to alter its ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, ...
- Insulin glulisine - Insulin glulisine is a rapid-acting insulin analogue that differs from human insulin in that the amino acid asparagine at position B3 is replaced by lysine and the lysine in position B29 is replaced by glutamic acid. Chemically, it is 3B-lysine-29B-glutamic acid-human insulin, has the empirical formula C258H384N64O78S6 and a ...
- Insulin resistance - Insulin resistance is the condition in which normal amounts of insulin are inadequate to produce a normal insulin response from fat, muscle and liver cells. Insulin resistance in fat cells results in hydrolysis of stored triglycerides, which elevates free fatty acids in the blood plasma.
- Inhalable insulin - Inhalable insulin is a new (as of mid-2006) method of delivering insulin, a drug used in the treatment of diabetes, to the body. It is the first new treatment option of insulin since the discovery of insulin in 1921traditionally administered by subcutaneous injection].
- Pulsatile insulin - Pulsatile insulin describes in a literal sense the injection of insulin in pulses versus continuous infusions. Injection of insulin in pulses mimics the physiological secretions of insulin by the pancreas into the portal vein which then drains into the liver.