Endocrine System
Often referred to as "The master gland" in the endocrine system, its function is to regulate growth, metabolism, and reproduction.
What is pituitary gland
Glucose is stored in this organ after a meal has been consumed
What is the Liver
What form of diabetes is mainly characterized by its autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells
What is Type 1 Diabetes
When the body starts breaking down fat at a rate that is much too fast. The liver processes the fat into a fuel called ketones, which causes the blood to become acidic. What is this process?
What is diabetic ketoacidosis
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer has this type of cancer.
What is adenocarcinoma
A cluster of conditions that occur simultaneously due to an imbalance in hormones that increase your risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease
What is Metabolic Syndrome
This hormone inhibits both insulin and glucagon secretion
What is somatostatin
This is the most commonly used treatment for individuals with diabetes
What is Insulin
This diabetic disease is one of the leading reason for amputees in America.
What is Diabetic Neuropathy
One reason that cancer occurs is through genetic changes or mutations that are passed on by family members from generation to generation. What is this syndrome called?
What is Family Cancer Syndrome
A chemical messenger released from endocrine glands into the blood stream to act on organs in different parts of the body
What are hormones
What two major processes occur during times of hyperglycemia?
What are Glycogenesis & Glycolysis
Overexposure to glucose leads to a high demand of pancreatic beta cell function and an increased need for insulin production. Overtime, the beta cells become overworked and do not respond to insulin signaling. What is this process?
What is insulin resistance?
This diabetic diseases can result in kidney failure if it is not properly managed
Diabetic Nephropathy
This diseases is described as temporary inflammation in the pancreas
What is Acute Pancreatitis
Mechanisms where a product feeds back into itself to control its own function and production
What are feedback loops
These enzymes are responsible for the post-translational processing of preproinsulin and proglucagon into their mature forms of insulin and glucagon
What are prohormone convertases
This type of bariatric surgery is the most dangerous because it leads to greater complications for some patients with diabetes
What is Gastric band surgery
If a Type 1 Diabetes patient overuses insulin, what would happen to their blood glucose level?
What is hypoglycemia
These are saclike pockets of fluid found on or in your pancreas
What are pancreatic cysts
This organ is primarily responsible for the production of immune cells like white blood cells
What is Thymus
This enzyme is used during glycogenesis and helps to link glycogen molecules together at the 1 and 4 carbons
What is glycogen synthase
The most commonly talked about types of diabetes are Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, but what disease has been referred to as Type 3 diabetes?
What is Alzheimer's Disease
This type of eye disease is the advanced stage of diabetic eye disease
What is proliferative diabetic retinopathy
These types of pancreatic cancer describe cancers that occurs due to changes in acinar cells of the pancreas
What is Exocrine Pancreatic Cancer