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What organ does insulin affect?
Insulin is produced in the pancreas, but it affects every organ in the body. All organs metabolize sugar, and sugar metabolism is regulated by insulin.
What monosaccharide found in the blood has its concentration regulated by the hormones insulin and glucagon?
Glucose is called blood sugar.
The primary means of water movement between fluid compartments is?
The movement of water and electrolytes is primarily regulated between fluid compartments by hydrostatic pressure and osmotic pressure.
What hormone promotes storage of glucose by the liver?
Insulin
Why is human insulin preferable to animal insulin?
-Human insulin does not cost as much as pig/animal insulin -Human insulin does not result in allergic reactions, such of insulin of an animal.
What is the concentration of glucose in the blood is primarily regulated by what?
The primary regulators of blood glucose are the hormones glucagon and insulin. Glucagon raises it and insulin lowers it.
What organ does insulin affect?
Insulin is produced in the pancreas, but it affects every organ in the body. All organs metabolize sugar, and sugar metabolism is regulated by insulin.
Where is GLUT4 found?
GLUT4 is the insulin-regulated glucose transporter found in adipose tissues and striated muscles (skeletal and cardiac) that is responsible for insulin-regulated glucose disposal."Allows equilibrium with blood-bidirectional".
The need to breathe is primarily regulated?
Yes yes it is.
What is regulated primarily by the buffering action of proteins?
pH balance
The extracellular fluid concentration of which ion is not primarily regulated by the kidney?
iron
What monosaccharide found in the blood has its concentration regulated by the hormones insulin and glucagon?
Glucose is called blood sugar.
How is the blood level of of insulin controlled and regulated?
Well the hormone insulin takes glucose from the blood and shares it with other organs needing it. If Insulin isnt produced than this process isnt occuring which makes your blood have higher glucose levels, the insulin isnt doing its job.
Which of the following processes is regulated primarily by the buffering action of proteins?
pH balance
Is diabetes insulin made in a pig cow human or bacteria?
Diabetes insulin is found in all four subjects. However, recombinant bacteria are primarily used as a main source of insulin for diabetic subjects.
How does body maintain a steady level of sugar in the bloodstream?
The body mains a steady level of sugar in the bloodstream by sending signals to the pancreas. By producing insulin and glucagon, sugar levels are regulated.
How did insulin affect the world?
Insulin was first injected into a patient with diabetes in the early 1920s. Before then, if one's diabetes could not be regulated, that person would almost always die. After the mass production of insulin, people could manage their diabetes, and it was not a death sentence, as it had once been.
