Which technique takes advantage of the requirement of glucose for more fuel?

2-DG Autoradiography

2-DG Autoradiography is a technique used to study the neuronal organization of certain aspect of behavior such as hibernation, thought, sleep and language. This technique can also be used to correlate some specific aspect of human behavior to regional pattern of glucose utilization in the brain. However, 2-DG Autoradiography was developed by sokoloff and his associates to determine and measure glucose utilization in the brain.

step 1: initiation

initiation is the beginning of transcription. it occurs when the enzyme rna polymerase binds to a region of a gene called the promoter. this signals the dna to unwind so the enzyme can ‘‘read’’ the bases in one of the dna strands. the enzyme is now ready to make a strand of mrna with a complementary sequence of bases.

step 2: elongation

elongation is the addition of nucleotides to the mrna strand. rna polymerase reads the unwound dna strand and builds the mrna molecule, using complementary base pairs. there is a brief time during this process when the newly formed rna is bound to the unwound dna. during this process, an adenine (a) in the dna binds to an uracil (u) in the rna.

step 3: termination

termination is the ending of transcription, and occurs when rna polymerase crosses a stop (termination) sequence in the gene. the mrna strand is complete, and it detaches from dna.

a physical change is being made.