Posted by Bradley DeBruler on December 23, 1998 at 21:57:18:
I have wondered for a while now how insulin works. The only explanation I have ever been able to find is the same oversimplified "lock and key to open a door on a cell" nonsense I got the day I was diagnosed almost 10 years ago.
Does insulin bind to glucose and then to a protein on a cell wall? or does insulin bind to a cell wall first? What is the half life of insulin in the body? what order of rate law would apply?
If anyone out there can answer these questions I would be quite thankful.
Ironic... Just last week I had wished I wouldn't have to even think about chemistry until next semester, and here I go asking things like this.
Brad