2007-09-19 05:42:35 · 11 answers · asked by jeanette p 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
The pancreas is an oblong flattened gland located deep in the abdomen, in between the stomach and spine.
The pancreas makes pancreatic juices and hormones, including insulin. The pancreatic juices are enzymes that help digest food in the small intestine. Insulin controls the amount of sugar in the blood.
As pancreatic juices are made, they flow into the main pancreatic duct. This duct joins the common bile duct, which connects the pancreas to the liver and the gallbladder. The common bile duct, which carries bile (a fluid that helps digest fat), connects to the small intestine near the stomach.
The pancreas is thus a compound gland. It is "compound" in the sense that it is composed of both exocrine and endocrine tissues. The exocrine function of the pancreas involves the synthesis and secretion of pancreatic juices. The endocrine function resides in the million or so cellular islands (the islets of Langerhans) embedded between the exocrine units of the pancreas. Beta cells of the islands secrete insulin, which helps control carbohydrate metabolism. Alpha cells of the islets secrete glucagon that counters the action of insulin.
2007-09-19 05:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the pancreas, and the insulin it produces, sugars, which are the energy source for the body, build up to the point where they actually damage fragile organs and body parts. Insulin helps metabolize the sugars into a form the cells can use to power their functions.
2007-09-19 05:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by Vince M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an important organ in that it produces both endocrine hormones, such as insulin, glucagon, somatastatin, and exocrine digestive juices, which aid in digestion.
See the link below for a fuller description, with a good picture of what the pancreas looks like.
2007-09-19 14:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nutrition coming into the ileum interior the direction of the duodenum is extremely acidic because of the action of Hydrochloric acid got here upon interior the gastric juices produced interior the tummy epithelium.The pancrease secretes Pancreatic juices that are alkaline in nature. because of this reason the pancreatic juices produced tend to neutralize the acidity of the nutrition coming into the duodenum, this ensures that PH interior the ileum is alkaline that's needed for the conventional functioning of the enzymes interior the duodenum & ileum which artwork suitable in Alkaline medium.
2016-11-05 21:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by eaddie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the body organ that produces insulin, the chemical in our bodies that regulates the simple and complex sugars that we ingest in everyday meals.
2007-09-19 05:47:57 · answer #5 · answered by Raingirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an Organ produces Insulin,which separates glucose .
2007-09-19 06:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by panneerselvam s 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it controls sugar levels and produces insulin.a very busy organ look after it.
2007-09-23 05:14:42 · answer #7 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sorts out the suger levels in our blood
2007-09-19 05:52:20 · answer #8 · answered by BC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it controls the sugar level,s in your body.
2007-09-23 04:59:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It creates insulin....
2007-09-19 05:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by Tucker C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋