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How does insulin and glycogen maintain homeostasis in the pancreas?
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What do prancreas do?
The pancreas has two roles, helping with endocrine homeostasis by secreting insulin and glycogen when directed and producing bile for the small intestine.
What is An example of antagonistic hormones controlling homeostasis?
glycogen and insulin
The first organ to respond to rise in glucose blood level?
pancreas
The pancreas maintain blood sugar levels in the blood in doing so the pancreas helps to maintain?
Close. Insulin is produced in the pancrease to regulate glucose levels in the blood.
Why is insulin released into the body?
Insulin is released when the beta islet cells of the pancreas detect elevated levels of glucose in the blood. When insulin is released it causes cells throughout the body to store glucose thus reducing levels in the blood.
Is glycogen a lipid carbohydrate protein or nucleic acid?
Carbohydrate! gly = sugar
How do human bodies keep homeostasis when you ingest A LOT of sugar-ASAP?
A surge of insulin released from the pancreas.
What does the Pancreas secrete?
insulin it also secretes enzymes, for digestion, and aqueous bicarbonate to neutralize acids. you can go to the answer for "what does pancreas secrete?" for more in depth info. Mainly pancreas secrete pancreatic juices that contains enzyme which is used speed up the chemical reaction taking place.
What internal organ in the human body helps regulate blood sugar levels?
Pancreas. It secrete the hormone insulin that helps to convert glucose(monosaccharide) into glycogen (polysaccharides)
What happens when you eat a big meal?
The mammalian pancreas secretes insulin by beta cells which increases glycogen synthesis. Insulin lowers blood glucose levels.
What does insulin convert glucose to in the muscles?
Insulin is secreted from the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas in order to convert glucose into glycogen for use by our muscles. This process actually takes place in the liver, not the muscles.
Give an example of how homeostasis is maintained?
An example of homeostasis is regulating blood glucose concentration. The body does this as follows: If there is enough glucose in the blood, the hormone insulin (from the pancreas) stimulates the liver to store the extra (not needed at the time) glucose as glycogen. If the blood sugar gets low, another hormone stimulates the liver to release the glucose back into the blood. If the storage in the liver is full, glucose is converted into fat in special cells around the body.
