Zoology - Chemical Coordination and Integration Question with Solution | TestHub

A patient of diabetes mellitus is unable to produce or fail to utilise insulin hormone. Thus, he is unable to store glucose in the form of glycogen. Hence, he starts to excrete glucose in the urine even if a patient is kept on carbohydrate free diet, yet he excretes glucose in urine because high level of blood glucose not only depends on dietary carbohydrates but also on glycogenolysis (degradation of glycogen in liver) and gluconeogenesis (breakdown of fats into glucose in adipose tissues.