Bio 3.6 Controlling Blood Glucose

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Where is glucose monitored?
The pancreas
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What does the pancreas do?
Controls how much glucose is in our blood
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If there is too much Glucose in the blood what will the pancreas do?
Release a hormone called INSULIN
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What does Insulin do?
Causes glucose to move from blood into cells
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Where is excess glucose stored?
In the liver
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What is the glucose stored as?
GLYCOGEN
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If no or little insulin is produced what will happen to the concentration of glucose in the blood?
It will rise very highly
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What is this called?
Type 1 Diabetes
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Give me 3 ways on how the Type 1 Diabetes can be controlled?
Exercise, Diet and insulin Injection
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What effect does insulin have?
Causes blood Glucose levels to fall
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Should glucose level get to low, how will this be monitored?
Receptors in the pancreas monitor glucose levels in blood
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What will the pancreas reaction be?
To produce the hormone GLUCAGON
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What does this hormone do?
Causes the GLYCOGEN in the liver to change into GLUCOSE
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What happens to this GLUCOSE?
It is released back into the blood
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What happens if you have to much GLUCOSE in blood?
INSULIN us released
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What happens to excess GLUCOSE?
Turned into GLYCOGEN for storage
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Where is this GLYCOGEN stored?
The Liver
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Should the blood have too low levels to GLUCOSE in the blood, what will happen?
The Pancreas will produce GLUCAGON to react with GLYCOGEN
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What will this form?
GLUCOSE
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