Neurons can only use glucose!
and they don’t require insulin.
(use Glut-2-transporters)
What if your Glucose becomes too low?
Hypoglycemia, can impair CNS resulting in dizziness, speech problems and loss of consciousness.
Unconsciousness => "hypoglycemic coma"
often resulting from "insulin shock ".
3. PANCREATIC SECRETIONS
1. PROTEASES (70%)
Endopeptidases (trypsin, chymotrypsin, elastases)
Exopeptidases (carboxypeptidases)
trypsinogen trypsin activates all other precursors
enterokinase
(duct walls)
2. NUCLEASES (DNAase, RNAase)
3. PANCREATIC AMYLASE (hydrolyse starch and gl;ycogen)
4. PANCREATIC LIPASE (triglycerides fatty acids and glycerol)
4. REGULATION OF SECRETION
1. SECRETIN
food in
stomach
release of
stomach acid
into duodenum
release of secretin
into blood by
duodenal cells
secretion of
bicarbonate
by duct cells
alkaline pH
(ideal for
pancreatic enzymes)
2. PANCREOZYMIN (cholecystokinen)
amino acids and
fats in intestine
release of pancreozymin
by intestinal mucosa
into blood
relase of pancreatic enzymes
into the intestine
3. GASTRIN
food in stomach gastrin secretion
by stomach mucosa
release of pancreatic enzymes
into the intestine
4. AUTONOMIC INNERVATION (vagus nerve)