Influence of metabolic, endocrine and nervous factors on the action of insulin

Abstract

Insulin produces the disappearance of blood sugar in a way not yet well known. It brings about hypoglycemia (period of descent). Mechanisms that regulate the blood-sugar content are brought into action by this state, diminishing or stopping the descent; the blood-sugar level remains low with small variations in either direction. At a later stage (period of recovery) these mechanisms predominate and the glycemia rises to a normal level, or a little above, and after a few oscillations the normal state is recovered.