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There are important differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. They happen in people of different ages and present differently. Type 1 diabetes is found in younger people and is because your body has...

In short Aerobic is with oxygen - think aero=air, therefore oxygen is present. This process also produces more energy and takes place on mitochondria only producing carbon dioxide and water from glucose a...

1. An action potential arriving at the pre-synaptic membrane stimulates voltage-gated calcium channels to open and calcium ions diffuse into the neuron through these calcium channe...

(using diagram of synapse between relay and motor neurone)

This is the relay neurone and this is the motor neurone, the gap in between the neurones is called the synapse. Information is passed from...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus occurs when the body's immune system attacks beta cells within the Islets of Langerhans, in the pancreas. The immune system recognises pancreatic self-antigens as foreign and begi...