Abstract
It is the purpose of the author to investigate some aspects of the role of glucose in the integument and to speculate on the meaning of the data obtained from this investigation. Also it is anticipated that the development and standardisation of investigative procedures in this study will not only help to carry out this investigation but will open up a new field of research.|The author will first review the know fundamentals of glucose kinetics and metabolism and then some aspects of glucose function in the skin will be mentioned. Following the latter discussion, abnormal glucose function in some dermatologic diseases will be reviewed. The reminder of the thesis will contain: (l) the development end performance of the methodology and technic of glucose tolerance tests used in this investigation, (2) results and discussion of the data collected in this research program, (3) future research plans, and (4) conclusions.