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What is the role of hormones like insulin in facilitated difussion?
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What after receiving a signal from the nervous system it releases hormones like insulin?
the pancreas secretes insulin
Why can the progesterone-like hormones of birth control pills be taken orally while hormones like insulin must be injected?
Insulin is protein soluble and would be unable to cross the wall of the gastrointestinal tract without being broken down and the hormones in birth control pills are lipid soluble are correct.
Why must hormones like insulin and oxytocin be injected?
You can't take insulin by mouth because the acids in your stomach would destroy it. http://www.healthline.com/sw/khs-using-injected-insulin
What are some of the growth hormones that are being secreted by Somatostatin?
The answer is none. Just like Diabetics they have a level sugar and insulin. When sugar is so high they cannot balance out the insulin and become diabetics. The same meaning stands for Growth hormones and Anti Growth Hormones. They body produces growth hormones while at the same time Anti growth Hormones. There is no connection between the two.
Doctor that studies hyperglycemia?
An endocrinologist deals with hormones, like insufficient insulin. However, so do GPs and Internists.
What chemical does the pancreas release?
The pancreatic beta islets produce insulin. Alfa cells produce glucagon. Insulin and glucogon produce a homeostatic method to produce normal blood glucose levels.
What is the mature form of insulin?
Insulin like many other peptide hormones is synthesized in the body as a pro-hormone that is then cleaved to become the more active hormone. Therefore the mature form could be said to the cleaved active horomone and not the 'juvenile' pro-hormone (actually used clinically as pro-insulin). However, in humans, the insulin of adults is the same as that of children.
What chemical acts like a key to a cell?
hormones such as insulin opens up channel proteins which are like doors to a cell. Channel proteins allow larger molecules, such as sugar, to enter the cell.
Why must hormones like oxytocin be injected?
Some hormones can get digested in the stomach, while others can't. Another example of one that has to be injected is insulin, although a powdered version that's inhaled is now available to bypass the stomach in a different way.
Where are the island of langerhans?
I think you mean 'Islets of Langerhan.' They are found in the pancreas. They are made up of endocrine cells, producing hormones like insulin and glucagon. The rest of the pancreas is exocrine tissue.
Are there foods that taste like insulin?
no, insulin has a strong smell though. my sister has diabetes.. but you wouldn't know what insulin tastes like. if you have tasted it, then your dead:P
What is made of cell proteins?
Constantly and prodigeously Cell proteins are formed into at least three types of products which are i) structural eg. collagen; ii) functional such as enzymes and iii) regulatory hormones like insulin.
