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Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 1979;63(5):939-946. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI109394.
Abstract
Tissue sensitive to insulin and insulin binding to monocytes were evaluated in 15 nonobese maturity-onset diabetics and in 16 healthy controls. Insulin sensitivity was determined by the insulin clamp technique in which the plasma insulin is acutely raised and maintained 100 μU/ml above the fasting level and plasma glucose is held constant at fasting levels by a variable glucose infusion. The amount of glucose infused is a measure of overall tissue sensitivity to insulin.
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Ralph Defronzo, David Deibert, Rosa Hendler, Philip Felig, Vijay Soman
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