MEDIAST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Digestion, Pepsin, Active Transport
22 Apr 2016
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Food stimulates senses of taste, sight and smell. Psychological process that prompts us to find n eat food, from within. Signals that make/encourage us to eat r. Nerce receptors in the stomacj send signals to brain to indicate if they r full or empty. Bloof glucose levels trigger the release of hormones called insulin n glucagon. Region of brain that get this signals. Something in the liver that breaks down fatty food. Most digastive absorptio happens in the intestine. The um of all chemical processes involved in mainting life. Metabolically we talk about energy as atp.
