Treatment Management What is pancreatitis? Pancreatitis is inflammation of your pancreas. The pancreas is an organ that makes insulin. It also makes enzymes (digestive juices) that help your body digest food. Pancreatitis may be an acute (short-term) problem that happens only once. It may becom...
Post organ transplantation Stroke To determine the dosage before transition to subcutaneous insulin QUESTION Diabetes is defined best as...See Answer What is the optimal range of glucose control? Both American Diabetes Association (ADA) and American College of Endocrinology recommend that the target blo...
What is the target organ of somatostatin? Somatostatin affects several areas of the body. In thehypothalamus, it regulates the secretion of hormones coming from the pituitary gland, including growth hormone and thyroid stimulating hormone. In the pancreas, somatostatin inhibits the secretion of pancreat...
Glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) has been the target of anti-diabetes strategies because it: a) Is produced exclusively in the pancreas, which is also the site of insulin production. b) Facilitates glucose mediated insulin release, ultimately reducing plas What fluid does the pancreas produce?
1. That pancreatic cells that secret insulin are ___. What do the interstitial cells produce? The pancreas is the most important source of ___ digesting enzymes. a. Which organ produces pancreatic lipase? b. How does the enzyme help in the digestion of food? Where...
Stem cells come in many different forms. Scientists think that every organ of our body has its own specific type of stem cells. For example, our blood is made from blood (also known as hematopoietic) stem cells. However, stem cells are also present from the earliest stages of human develop...
In fact, scientists have yet to identify a single organism, whether that’s something as large as an animal or as small as an insect or bacteria, which does not produce glycan-binding proteins.They find them whenever they have looked for them in a given species. ...
High sugar levels slowly make cells in your pancreas less able to make insulin. The organ overcorrects, and insulin levels stay too high. Over time, the pancreas is forever damaged. High levels of blood sugar can cause changes that lead to a hardening of the blood vessels, what doctors cal...
However, even though bone constitutes 15% of body weight and is closely linked to muscle, little attention has been paid to bone loss during and after ICU and its impact on the prognosis of this group—whether bone loss is also part of multi-organ failure? Furthermore, recent studies have...
Good sources of vitamin A are organ meats such as liver, fish such as sardines or oils such as cod liver oil. You can also get vitamin A precursors (e.g., beta carotene) from vegetables such as carrots, but not everyone is able to benefit from this particular type of vitamin A. So...