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TI

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If a pharmaceutical company wished to design a drug to maintain low blood sugar levels, one approach might be to design a compound
A) that mimics epinephrine and can bind to the epinephrine receptor.
B) that stimulates cAMP production in liver cells.
C) to stimulate G protein activity in liver cells.
D) that increases phosphodiesterase activity.
E) that does any of the above.



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In class, we found it was D. Good luck with the rest.



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