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Where in the human body would you find the glands that secrets insulin?
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sugar/glucosePancreas is the structure in the human body that is the usual source of insulin
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Why cant you mix insulin into food instead of injecting?
If you put insulin into food it would not have the same effect. You see, insulin needs to be in the blood stream. That is why you have to inject it with a syringe.
What happens when you drink insulin?
It depends on what type of glucose, but it's most likely the same as what is usually referred to as 'sugar', so it would just be very sweet. If you have a jar of glucose in a science lab, you should probably not taste it, because it's probably got a few impurities so it could make you quite ill.
What part of the digestive system makes a hormone called insulin?
That would be the pancreas. When you have diabetes, your pancreas doesn't make enough insulin.
What effect would insulin receptors have on blood sugar if they stopped working?
If the insulin receptors stopped working the blood sugar will raise which may leads to diabetes
What hormone causes loss of glucose in the urine?
Glucose in urine is a worrying sign, as it is a key symptom of diabetes. A lack of the hormone insulin would be responsible.
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 glands?
That would depend on which glands you are talking about in the human or animal body.
What if insulin was never made?
Insulin cannot cross the placenta, so if a person were to never make insulin they would probably die in utero. The normal human fetus begins making its own insulin at about day 14.
What is synthetic human insulin?
Insulin is a hormone secreted from the pancreas in response to high blood sugar levels. Since it is a hormone it is a protein. Proteins can be synthesized with the help of bacteria in a process called pcr. Synthesizing insulin would not be easy at home. Hormones are commonly obtained from animals such as the pig.
When was Human Insulin produced by mircobes?
In 1983 scientists worked out a way of producing human insulin on a large scale using genetically modified bacteria. They did this by first working out which human chromosome was responsible for producing insulin. They then isolated that chromosome using a restricting enzyme. They would then remove the plasmid from the bacterium, cut out a small piece of the plasmid using enzymes and then replace the gap made with the human insulin gene. The genetically engineered plasmid is the inserted into a new bacterium and this bacterium is allowed to grow and multiply. Each of the new bacteria would contain the human insulin gene and as the bacteria continued to multiply they would be producing insulin which could then be used to treat diabetes. In this way we could produce large amounts of insulin that was suitable for vegetarian use and causes very few allergic reactions quickly and cost effectively.
Is human insulin made from yeast?
It would be more correct to say that bacteria and yeast can be genetically modified to produce a compound which is chemically identical to human insulin.So can plants, by the way; a safflower plant with the genes to produce bio-identical human insulin has been demonstrated.
A drastic change in the metabolic rate of a human would most likely result from the?
Malfunction of the endocrine glands
Genetically engineered insulin advantages and disadvantages?
Zade Lunat *the advantage is that it is the only viable source of clinical quantities of human insulin. Before it's FDA approval for Genetech patients would inject animal insulin purified from animal tissue. Disadvantages? From the frame of mind that is the ONLY source of externally provided human insulin it is hard to attribute disadvantages.
What disease would you get if your endocrine system no longer worked?
Your endocrine system is a large collection of many different glands throughout your body. If the entire system failed to work, you would die. The glands secrete hormones vital to your growth and developement. These hormones signal other body processes that regulate your wellbeing. A common hormone your have probably heard of is Insulin. If it is no longer secreted through your pancreas, you would have diabetes. Like I said, assuming by endocrine system you mean ALL your glands, you would most definitely die.
What would the body catch if the pancreas dies?
you would have to inject insulin because the pancreas produces insulin
Would the pI values of the animal insulins be the same as greater than or less than human insulins?
The pI values for all of the animal insulins would be similar to human insulin (with the exception of chicken and duck) because the amino acid changes all involved neutral amino acids. Chicken insulin would be more basic (because of the histidine substitution) whereas duck would be more acidic (because of the glutamate substitution.)
What are the approximate number of sweat glands in the human body?
i am taking a&p right now, so, i would have to say 2.6 million i think
