Structure
Cell Types
Function
Disease
Misc.
100
The pancreas is found behind this digestive organ.
What is the stomach?
100
The pancreas' islets are made up of this many cell types.
What is the number 4?
100
This is the overall main function of the pancreas for the endocrine system.
What is the regulation of blood sugars?
100
This is the most common disease associated with the pancreas.
What is diabetes?
100
Aside from the endocrine system, the pancreas is also involved in this system.
What is the digestive system?
200
The pancreas is divided into these 3 main parts.
What are the head, body, and tail?
200
The Alpha cells are responsible for secreting this important hormone.
What is glucagen?
200
This is how the pancreas is able to carry out its main endocrine function.
What is the secretion of specific hormones from its cells?
200
This is the age in which type 1 diabetes occurs.
What is 20 years old or younger.
200
The pancreas is connected to this section of the small intestine.
What is the duodenum?
300
The pancreas is ________ long.
What is 6 inches (15 centimeters)
300
This kind of cell makes up 65-90% of the islets.
What are Beta cells?
300
This cell type out of the 4 types that can be found in the islets (cell clusters) of the pancreas is responsible for raising blood sugar levels.
What are Alpha cells?
300
Name one of 3 visual symptoms of diabetes (can be seen, appearance).
What are unusual weight gain, unusual weight loss, and cuts and bruises that do not heal.
300
Name an organ that is directly affected by the homeostasis of blood sugars the pancreas manages (there are 3).
What are the brain, the kidneys, and the liver?
400
The pancreas is classified as a _______ structure because it produces a variety of secretions.
What is a secretory structure?
400
The Delta cells are able to regulate the Alpha and Beta cells by secreting this hormone.
What is somatostatin?
400
Beta cells produce this hormone in order to decrease blood sugar levels.
What is insulin?
400
A tumor of the islet Beta cells can cause _______ (an overproduction of insulin).
What is hypoinsulin?
400
All hormones made by the cells from the pancreatic islets are __________ (long chains of amino acids).
What are polypeptide chains?
500
The part of the pancreas responsible for endocrine function is made up of approximately a million cell clusters (called _______).
What are islets?
500
This is the how Gamma cells self-regulates pancreatic secretion activities.
What is pancreatic polypeptide secretion?
500
This is the percentage of the pancreatic cells (in total) that are involved in the endocrine system.
What is under 10%?
500
Decreased ability to secrete glucagen from pancreatic Alpha cells has been associated with _________.
What is hyposecretion of glucagen (chronic hypoglucemia).
500
Glucagen is a __________ hormone, and is able to _________ glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids from stores into the blood.
What is a catabloic hormone? What is mobilize/move?
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