01:119:116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Anemia, Gastric Acid, Neural Tube Defect

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:116
• Professor: Professor Beal

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I. outcomes: compare and contrast the requirements for an adequate diet in animals. Can you put this information in your flowchart of digestion from the last chapter: how is glucose regulated, include insulin and glucagon, what regulates satiety, include organs, hormones, and feedback pathways. A. nutrition: nutrition- food used by body, food taken in, broken down, and used. B. animal diet (important: figure 41. 17): animals feed in 3 ways, herbivores- eat only plants, carnivores- eats animals, omnivores- eats plants and animals, opportunistic feeders. C. proper nutrition: need to eat correct mixture. Source of protein: required to make macromolecules. B. pancreas: exocrine- pancreatic juice with digestive enzymes, endocrine- pancreatic islets that secrete antagonistic hormones into blood, alpha- cells secrete glucagon, beta- cells secrete insulin, pancreas -> intestinal fluid -> bloodstream, secretion controlled by blood glucose levels. D. what happens when it goes wrong: malfunction is called diabetes mellitus, most common endocrine disorder, world-wide health problem, 2 causes, 1. )