What condition (if any) is cause by loss of function surrounded by the alpha pancreatic islet cell?
Answers: Pancreatic alpha islet cell manufacture glucagon. Glucagon have the opposite effect of insulin. Insulin ( a beta islet complex, cell product), induces the liver to remove glucose from the blood by cause the body to store that glucose in the liver as glycogen. Glucagon induces the liver to catabolise the elongated glycogen molecules to break up into its constituent glucose sugar unit and enter the bloodstream as glucose. Cells absorb glucose and use it for heartiness (bodywide). Glucagon cannot induce HYPOglycemia but could cause HYPERglycemia if here is an overshoot in the amount of glucagon An thus glucose, produced. (glucagon is used to treat insulin overdose. (acute hypoglycemia), which can raison d`¨ētre coma and death.). Or contained by milder cases. Loss of such alpha islet cell function can cause glycogen storage disease. (Von Gierke's disease).
Hope that straightens up the biochemistry confusion.
Doc. Dan.
Since the alpha cell secrete Glucagon, I would muse the resulting pathology would be hypoglycemia.
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