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Q: How does the insulin pump help a person with type 1diabetes maintain homeostasis?
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When a person's body needs water the brain helps maintain homeostasis by sending signals that make the person?

when a person's body needs food, the brain sends signals that make the person think they're hungry, so they eat.


Insulin and Glucagon and what happens to the person has skipped e meal?

After a person has skipped a meal, the person's blood glucose level will stay at its normal level as there isn't any glucose absorbed. To maintain this normal blood glucose level, the pancreatic cells will secrete glucagon which stimulates the body to convert stored glycogen into glucose. There won't be any insulin secreted as insulin is only secreted when the blood glucose level increases beyond its normal level (for example, after a meal).


A malfunction of hormonal secretions from the pancreas may require a person to?

Receive daily injections of insulin. This is because produces insulin, and if anything goes wrong with the pancreas, the body still needs of supply of insulin.


How does positive feedback maintain cellular homeostasis?

Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of positive and negative feedback. Positive feedback keeps adding to a process. Negative feedback doesn't. If a person fills a bathtub, positive feedback will continue the filling even if it runs over. Negative feedback will turn the water off when the tub is filled. So, negative feedback maintains homeostasis. Homeostasis means "steady state". When a processes is completed, it turns it off. Example: Blood sugar levels remain in a certain range.


What happens when a cell have too few insulin?

Insulin is a hormone that causes cells to absorb and store glucose. When the body fails to produce sufficient insulin, or the insulin is ineffective, the body cannot store glucose, and can become lethargic. Diabetes is the name for the condition where insulin is not functioning properly.

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How could the liver maintain homeostasis after a person ate a meal that resulted in large amousnts of sugar entering the blood?

How could the liver maintain homeostasis after a person ate a meal that resulted in large amounts of sugar entering the blood?(the person is suffering from diabetes).


How could the liver maintain homeostasis after the person ate a meal that resulted in large amounts of sugar entering the blood?

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What would happen if a person suffered from a disorder that made it impossible for her to sweat?

The person's body would be unable to maintain homeostasis, and her body temperature would rise dangerously high.


When a person body needs food the brain help maintain homeostasis by sending signal that make the person?

when a person's body needs food, the brain sends signals that make the person think they're hungry, so they eat.


When a person's body needs water the brain helps maintain homeostasis by sending signals that make the person?

when a person's body needs food, the brain sends signals that make the person think they're hungry, so they eat.


How could the liver maintain homeostasis after a person eats a meal that resulted in large amounts of sugar entering the blood?

It is in k12 need help look it up


How would the liver maintain homeostasis if a person skipped her lunch?

If a person skipped a meal and the blood sugar levels dropped, the liver could release some of the stored sugar back into the blood.


Which example shows an organism maintaining homeostasis A.a chicken laying eggs B.a person sweating on a hot day C.a lizard changing color to avoid a predatorD. a bacterium dividing into two?

B a & d are reproduction, c is just survival.


Insulin and Glucagon and what happens to the person has skipped e meal?

After a person has skipped a meal, the person's blood glucose level will stay at its normal level as there isn't any glucose absorbed. To maintain this normal blood glucose level, the pancreatic cells will secrete glucagon which stimulates the body to convert stored glycogen into glucose. There won't be any insulin secreted as insulin is only secreted when the blood glucose level increases beyond its normal level (for example, after a meal).


Can a person still have insulin if in hospice care?

Yes, they certainly can have insulin if in hospice care.