Describe the relationship between insulin and glucagon?!
Question: When you eat carbohydrates, (sugars), are broken down and absrobed into your bloodstream through your small intestine. These sugar molecules are needed in your tissues, not your blood. The pancreas detects the increased level of sugar in your blood and thus releases insulin that stimulates receptors within the cells to reach the surface and thus further facilitate the entry of sugar into the tissue where it is needed. Glucagon is released when the pancreas detects that the amount of sugar in the blood relatively low. Glucagon stimulated the liver to release the sugar that is stores. The liver has sugar reserves called glycogen which are releases when the body is low on sugar.
Answers: When you eat carbohydrates, (sugars), are broken down and absrobed into your bloodstream through your small intestine. These sugar molecules are needed in your tissues, not your blood. The pancreas detects the increased level of sugar in your blood and thus releases insulin that stimulates receptors within the cells to reach the surface and thus further facilitate the entry of sugar into the tissue where it is needed. Glucagon is released when the pancreas detects that the amount of sugar in the blood relatively low. Glucagon stimulated the liver to release the sugar that is stores. The liver has sugar reserves called glycogen which are releases when the body is low on sugar.
easier if you read web page...regulate glucose in the body
http://www.endocrineweb.com/insulin.html
insulin makes your blood glucose go down, glucagon makes it go up. They are complete opposites.
Didn't you ask this last week? Anyway, here's a website that explains it:
http://www.caninsulin.com/Glucose-metabo...