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Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN:9781285866932

Author:Lauralee Sherwood

Publisher:Lauralee Sherwood

Chapter19: The Peripheral Endocrine Glands

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People with type 2 diabetes have cells that do not respond to insulin, explain the problem this causes and why that problem occurs (at the cellar level)

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Type 2 diabetes is an impairment in which body uses glucose as a fuel. Long term usage cause much sugar circulating in the blood. Presence of sugars causes high blood sugar levels which leads to circulatory and nervous and immune disorders.

*In type 2 diabetes, pancreas unable to produce the insulin that is required to store sugars

*Insulin is a hormone which helps in entry of sugars into body cells.

* This diabetic type 2 people cells will respond poorly to insulin and take in less sugar.

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