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1 How do our bodies keep internal conditions constant? What parts of our body are involved in temperature control? How is blood sugar controlled? What’s the cause and treatment for diabetes? How was insulin first discovered?

2 What word would you use to describe this person’s pupil Constricted Dilated Diffused condensed What would happen if this part of the artery relaxed? Artery Skin capillaries Is this person too hot or too cold? Give 3 ways you can tell.

3 The chart shows the recommended volume of water that women of different body masses should drink, on a cold day and on a hot day.

4 What parts of our body are involved in temperature control? Receptors detect temperature of blood flowing through the brain - thermoregulatory centre Temperature receptors in your skin also send information to the thermoregulatory centre

5 What parts of our body are involved in temperature control? Too cold? Too hot?

6 Blood sugar How does glucose get into our blood? How does our body monitor the levels of glucose in our blood? How does insulin help lower our blood sugar? What happens if your body doesn’t make any insulin?

7 How is blood sugar controlled?

8 Receptors in pancreas monitor blood sugar level. Pancreas also produces the hormone Insulin

9 What does insulin do? Insulin is a hormone which helps sugar move from your bloodstream into your cells http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6rHYc0X 0jw&feature=related good http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/Diabetes/An- Overview-of- Insulin.aspx?articleID=6660&categoryID=DB- nh1-02

10 Diabetes treatments: Controlling diet Injecting insulin into the blood

11 How was insulin discovered?

12 I just feel thirsty and tired all the time I just want to help other dogs

13 How was insulin discovered? I just want to help other dogs Pancreas from healthy dog

14 How was insulin discovered? With this pancreas extract I could win a Nobel prize

15 How was insulin discovered? Extract injected into diabetic dog Woof woof now I feel great


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