Endocrine Abstracts

Glucose is slowly linked to haemoglobin in a non-enzymatic reaction and the determination of a glycated protein (HbA1c) is used for long term monitoring blood glucose concentrations. Radiometabolism studies in sheep showed that a haemoglobin-adduct formation also takes place with epinephrine or norepinephrine.The aim of our study was to elucidate if there is a competition between catecholamines and glucose for binding sites on proteins of the erythrocyte...