GLUT 2

                                                               

                                                                        Glucose Transporters

GLUT -2 

The gene encoding the transporter now known as GLUT2 was first cloned and identified in 1988 by Bernard Thorens and colleagues at the University of Lausanne.

GLUT - 2 

Glucose Sensor 

GLUT 2 - Glucose Sensor 

Fanconi Bickel Syndrome

Mutation In GLUT 2 

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GLUT 2  - Glucose Sensor - Release Of Insulin 

World No Pesticide Use Day/ National Pollution Control Day

 

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India 

Bhopal Gas Tragedy And The World 

                             In 1998, the International Pesticide Action Network established 

                                          World No Pesticide Use Day on December 3rd

It commemorates the world’s worst chemical disaster in 1984 in Bhopal, India, where over half a million people were exposed to toxic gases from a pesticide factory. 

Bhopal Gas Tragedy In Current News

          On Bhopal gas tragedy eve, survivors' groups slam BJP over 'denial' of justice

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Brown Tumour

 

1903 – Friedrich von Recklinghausen described osteitis fibrosa cystica, the classic skeletal disease of severe hyperparathyroidism.

• Brown tumours were recognized as part of this condition.

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World Nuclear Energy Day

 

                                                               Arco Idaho To The WORLD 

                                                                      Current Events

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Liquid Helium

 

Helium And Bizarre Physics 

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Antarctica Day

 

Antarctica

Antarctica is the only continent without an indigenous human population.

Roald Amudsen

First Person To Reach The South Pole In 1911

Current Events

Antarctica Day marks the anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed on 1 December 1959. The Treaty established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and science, prohibiting military activity, nuclear tests, and territorial claims.

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Zidovudine

                                                                

                                                                         New York Times

                                                                             July 3, 1981 

                                                                First Report On HIV/AIDS 

                                                                  HIV AIDS Timeline

FDA Approval Of HIV Medicines 

Zidovudine 

Zidovudine (AZT, also called azidothymidine) was first synthesized in 1964 by Jerome Horwitz at the Michigan Cancer Foundation.

It was originally developed as a potential anti-cancer drug, but it showed no significant activity and was shelved.

Scientists at Burroughs Wellcome (now part of GSK) revisited older nucleoside analogs.

AZT showed strong activity against HIV in vitro (1985).

First Drug Approved For HIV, 1987

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