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What is the Pancreas Gland?
Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist explains what the Pacreas Gland is in the body. He explains about endocrine and exocrine functions. One of the endocrine functions is to produce the hormone Insulin. Insulin is then transported in the blood to other areas of the body.
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So the pancreas gland is a gland which is into your abdomen, which would normally have different cells, they have different functions. It has a exocrine function or an endocrine function. The endocrine function is production of hormones, one of which is insulin. It also produces other hormones like glucagon. Its main function is around absorption of food, which we call in our language, call an exocrine function, being able to absorb the fat and the glucose and time the release of insulin with the food intake. So it's an organ which essentially can make your body respond to the amount of glucose that you take and release insulin, which makes the glucose go in the cells in all of the body.
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