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Pancreatic Islets
Anatomy
Question | Answer |
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Pancreatic islets? | Pancreas composed of both endocrine and exocrine tissue. |
What produces important hormones? | Pancreatic islets. |
What are the most important hormones produced by Pancreatic islets? | insulin and glucagon are antagonistic hormones to control glucose concentration in the blood. |
What can have general effects in the body? | Somatostatin |
What does Somatostatin primarily do? | regulate the secretion of other pancreatic hormones. |
What is insulin? | promotes movement of glucose out of the blood and into cells. |
What promotes movement of glucose from storage and into the blood? | glucagon. |