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The pancreas secretes "glucagon," not glucogen, to reverse hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) which then turns stored glycogen from the liver into glucose.
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Where is glucogen stored?
Glucose is stored as glycogen in muscles and liver.
What is the element symbol for glycogen?
Glycogen is not an element and it has no element symbol.
What are the three enzymes involved in the conversion of glycogen to glucose?
The process of "glycogenolysis" is the splitting of glycogen in the liver, which in turn produces glucose. Glucagon can be administered in emergency diabetic situations where sugar can't be taken orally.
What you expect to get if you hydrolyze a glycogen molecule?
glucose molecules because glycogen is stored glucose formed from glucose linkages
What is Glycogen used for?
Glycogen is "Animal Starch" analagous to Plant Starch (polymerized glucose) - a form of chemical energy storage used by animals and fungi.
Is glucogen an example of an isotope?
Glycogen is a compound. Anybody ever hear of glucogen.
Which gland converts glycogen to glucose?
Glucogen
How are glucose and glucogen related?
i think you mean glycogen...and they both have to do with sugar.
Where is glucogen stored?
Glucose is stored as glycogen in muscles and liver.
The liver store glucose in what form?
Glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles, and is second to fats as long-term energy storage.
What does glucagon do?
from what i know the function of glucagon is to convert glucogen into glucose when there is deficiency of glucose in the body where the glucogen is the access glucose which converted by the insulin
Why does out body save glycogen instead of fat?
Glycogen can readily be converted by the human body cells into gucogen for energy. * correction to that answer just posted: the word is : Glucogen (forgot to type in the letter L)
Explain how the blood sugar gets back to normal from being low?
Your blood sugar will become low once you are fasting, and when that happens the alpha cells of the islets of Langerhans will allow glucogen to be release. Glucogen promotes the conversions of glycogen to glucose, which is released into the blood. As glycogen is converted to glucose in the liver the blood sugar level returns to normal.
Chemical compounds that are converted to glycogen?
Glycogen synthesis is an endergonic reaction that utilizes UTP to form UDP-glucose. UDP-glucose is then turned into glycogen by the glycogen synthase enzyme.
What organelle converts glucose into glycogen?
There are alpha particles found in the pancreas which is organelle that converts glucose into glycogen. This is made possible when a hormone known as glucogen is released.
How might your body senses when to convert glucose to glycogen and glycogen back to glucose?
Your body seeks to convert glucose to glycogen and glycogen to glucose based on hormonal signals that are secreted in response to an event. i.e. if you ate tons of sugary food, your body will secrete a hormone called insulin from the beta cells of the pancreas, so that glucose in the blood will be able to be stored as glycogen in the muscle cells.
How can you use glycogen in a sentence?
I just ate lots of sugar, so the glucagon in my body turned the Glucose into Glycogen.
