PHYSCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Foam Cell, Low-Density Lipoprotein

• School: UCLA
• Department: Physiological Science
• Course: PHYSCI 5
• Professor: Esdin Joseph

Document Summary

Atherosclerosis: the blood vessel is supposed to be elastic, but this condition hardens the blood vessels. Macrophages: the tow trucks that remove the cells that s stuck in the vessels. Ischemia: cell death due to the slowing of blood to pass. The kids lack insulin, so when they grow up or all their lives, they would have to take insulin shots. Problem in the pancreas and how much units of insulin it can produce and release. Insulin released so much, talking about working the pancreas working too hard. Within age, you have to work on it and start talking insulin shots. Gestational: only a temporary type, found in women during pregnancy. What to take as a test for type 2 diabetes. Retinopathy: too much glucose in the blood, affecting our eyesight = blindness. Neuropathy: nerve damage bc too much glucose in the blood: affecting the nerves quite a lot.