In the event of inclement weather, residents should check the status of the Baltimore County Public Libraryâs Towson branch â if that branch is closed the evening of March 21, the public hearing will be postponed until Wednesday, March 28 at the Council Chambers of the Baltimore County Historic Courthouse.
The maintenance of normal carbohydrate tolerance requires the coordinated interaction of glucose, insulin, and glucagon. In the postabsorptive state the inhibitory effect of insulin on hepatic glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis is precisely balanced by the stimulatory effect of glucagon.
When these disease processes occur together, it is called the metabolic syndrome. One action of insulin is to cause the body's cells (particularly the muscle and fat) to remove and use glucose from the blood. This is one way by which insulin controls the level of glucose in blood. Insulin has this effect on the cells by binding to insulin receptors on the surface of the cells. You can think of it as insulin knocking on the doors of muscle and fat cells.