MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alarm Clock, Ketone Bodies, C-Peptide
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An article by cmaj, diabetes epidemic in indigenous populations highlights disparity. The alarm was on and people started working on but the snooze button has been pressed. It is not associated with is the fact that the pancreas is releasing digestive enzymes into your small intestine aid and digest cluster of cells are called islet of langerhans. We also have that hormone secreting cells. We got beta cells that secrete insulin. A cells secrete glucagon somatostatin stuck to the name ghih->it is also released of b cells, they tend to work on a localized level, secretes from the pancreas. After a meal plasma levels increase because carbs are absorbed. But before that because glucose levels were low you had high glucagon levels. O(cid:374)(cid:272)e glu(cid:272)ose le(cid:448)els i(cid:374)(cid:272)rease the(cid:374) it k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s they do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed a(cid:374)y (cid:373)ore glu(cid:272)ago(cid:374) But now that you have glucose in your blood those beta cells and insulin levels go up and starts to store it.
