Diabetes mellitus

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes type two is the most common form of ___a ____. Although it can occur at any age it is more common in people who are overweight, sedentary and over middle age.

___b____ is the main source of energy for body cells. When ____c___ levels rise, as is normal after a meal, the pancreas gland located behind the stomach secretes the ______d_________.

Insuline enters and circulates in the blood and acts in the insuline                            receptors present in _____e___, ____f____ and other tissues of the body. Binding of insuline to these receptors causes the glucose transporters to come to the cell surface. This facilitates the entry of glucose into these cells.

In diabetes type 2 the production of insuline is ____g__ and sometimes there may be resistant to insuline. The circulating insuline fails to facilitate the ______h________ into the cells and to keep the blood glucose level at optimum levels. This results in the rise of blood glucose levels.

The excess in blood glucose reacts with proteins in tissues to form what are known as Advanced Glucation End products or AGEs. AGEs create an inflammatory condition in the vasculator which causes ______i____ and damage to other organs such as the __j____ Diabetes can eventually cause damage to the heart, arteries, kidneys, nerves, eyes and skin.

Quiz on the neuron

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The nervous system

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 The human body nervous system

The nervous system: the _____a____, ______b____ and ____c____ is a living communications network carrying various kinds of messages to and from the different parts of your body. The nervous system is composed of nerve fibers that _________d_________ into your spinal cord and brain and the other _____e_____ that send the information out to different parts of your body.

The cells that make up the various parts of the nervous system are called ___f____. Each neuron has a neuron body, a part of the cell which contains a ____g___ and other structures, but a typical neuron has two other kinds of structures: long fibers that extend in different directions from the body of the cell, these fibers are often wrapped with a fatty substance called ___h____. Fibers that carry impulses toward the neuron body are called _____i_____.  Fibers that carry impulses away are called ____j_____. Different structures are concentrated in different parts of the body. Some neuron bodies are bound into clusters called ganglia, they are often associated with your ____k_____. The spinal cord is a long cylinder of ______l____ that passes through the hollow channels of bones called the _____m_____. The spinal cord is protected by those vertebrae. It is also protected by ______n_______ called meninges.

2.  Answer the questions:

     2.1. What is a neuron?

     2.2. What are the parts of a neuron?

     2.3 What are dendrites?

     2.4 What are axons?

     2.5 What is the spinal cord?

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Respiratory System

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