Glucose Question?

Question

How can a cell that consumes glucose speed up its intake of glucose from the enviroment?

Answer 1

Most cells immediately phosphorylate any glucose that gets into the cell, keeping the concentration of actual glucose at a near zero level, which maximizes the gradient to facilitate more glucose entry into the cell.

Answer 2

By being exposed to insulin - it causes the cells to take in the glucose in their environment. At least in mammalian cells, anyway. :)

Answer 3

there are many things that would cause this, like increased concentration, presence of different hormones, temperature changes, there are lots of things.

if you give more specifics, i could give you a better answer.