GLUT Family - Various
glucose transporters and their locations
GLUT 1 - RBCs
GLUT 2 - liver
GLUT 3 - brain
GLUT 4 - adipose tissue, skeletal muscle, heart
GLUT 5 - intestine, testis, kidney, sperm (for fructose)
GLUT 6 - leukocyte, spleen
among these GLUT receptors only GLUT4 is insulin dependant hence decrease in fasting
GLUT 7 for endoplasmic
reticulum
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