DISTRIBUTION OF GLUCOSE IN BLOOD

Abstract

Using proper precautions, the corpuscles of the blood of the rabbit, rat, guinea pig, cat, dog and man are found to contain no glucose, whether the "blood sugar" is high, as after adrenalin, or low, as after insulin. Addition of oxalate renders the corpuscles permeable to glucose, those of man being more susceptible than those of the other mammals studied. Amytal anesthesia does not affect the distribution of glucose in blood; ether anesthesia does to a slight extent.