The pancreas maintains the body's blood glucose (sugar) balance. Primary hormones of the pancreas include insulin and glucagon, and both regulate blood glucose.
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Insulin
Helps control blood glucose levels by signalling the liver and muscle and fat cells to take in glucose from the blood.
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Glucagon
Glucagon's role in the body is to prevent blood glucose levels dropping too low. To do this, it acts on the liver in several ways
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Glycogenesis
Process when insulin activates enzymes in muscle and liver cells that convert glucose into glycogen which can be stored in cells cytoplasm
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Glycogenolysis
Process where glucagon activates enzymes that break down
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Card 2
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Helps control blood glucose levels by signalling the liver and muscle and fat cells to take in glucose from the blood.
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Insulin
Card 3
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Glucagon's role in the body is to prevent blood glucose levels dropping too low. To do this, it acts on the liver in several ways
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Card 4
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Process when insulin activates enzymes in muscle and liver cells that convert glucose into glycogen which can be stored in cells cytoplasm
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Card 5
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Process where glucagon activates enzymes that break down
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