a little big organ

This specific post is too difficult for me, because I don’t know so much of the human body, but I have a barely idea of the pancreas and is enough to say that is my favorite organ.

The pancreas is a glandular organ in the digestive and endocrine system of vertebrates. In humans, it’s located in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach. The amount of hormones that pancreas produce is incredible big but the most important are the insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide (this one isn’t within my knowledge, I search it in Wikipedia, sorry:,( ).

The pancreas function is related with the blood sugar level control, the insulin help to decrease the sugar and the glucagon helps to increase the sugar in the blood (this activity of the pancreas is classified in the endocrine function, because it has an exocrine function too in the digestive system).

In respect with the size, it isn’t really big, varies among 12 and 15 cm long (a normal one, it can be more big if it has a type of disease).

And since I talked about disease, I can name three that I know:

Pancreatitis: is the inflammation of the pancreas, often in alcoholic persons.

Cancer: Is the most difficult of all, is called adenocarcinoma.

Diabetes mellitus 1 and 2: affect the insulin secreting cells.

And finally, I want to say I love pancreas for all the different hormones it secrete and all the different parts of the body that it helps n-n.