Sugar control
- Created by: NWILKA1
- Created on: 27-05-14 17:09
View mindmap
- Sugar Control
- Pancreas
- Monitors blood glucose concentration
- Produces the hormone insulin
- Insulin allows the glucose to move from the blood into the cells
- Produces the homone glucagon when bloof glucose levels fall.
- Causes glycogen to be converted into glucose and be released into the blood
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Pancreas does not produce enough insulin
- Causes blood glucose levels to rise to a high level.
- Controlled by careful attention to diet, exercise and by injecting insulin.
- Pancreas does not produce enough insulin
- Pancreas
Comments
No comments have yet been made