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secrete

(Science: physiology) To discharge a secretion, to release some sort of liquid substance (or substance in liquid). This can be done by the cell, by glands or other organs, or by tissues.

Examples of things that are secreted are hormones, saliva, mucus, bile, and sweat.


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efficiency of body cells

... in the body (after all, there's billions of them) - this could be due to simple mutation in some essential gene, after which the cell cannot secrete some essential protein (like insulin for example) but is otherwise viable. However, I haven't heard that there'd be so many of those cells that ...

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by biohazard
Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:52 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: efficiency of body cells
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efficiency of body cells

... some fucntion y for the body do it. For example not all well-developed cells of the islets-of-langerhans synthesise insulin, not all liver cells secrete bile etc etc I know nothing worthy of mentioning about biology but thought you guys could say if he is right. Thanks.

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by parth88
Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:31 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: efficiency of body cells
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Views: 201

Stomach bloating and weight gain

... be delivered to the place where it can do the most good. The body specifically makes the insulin in the beta cells of the pancreas, and exocytosis/secretes it into the capillaries and is taken into the blood. You want to get the insulin into the blood, and not into the epithelial cells that make ...

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by kolean
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:43 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 484620

Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

Not so. Not most ingested enzymes will be denatured and destroyed upon entering the stomache. Stomach acids do not secrete until the food is ingested and takes a couple of minutes to "gear up" for the meal coming (acinar cells and pancreatic juices). Setting the denature ...

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by MichaelXY
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:08 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 484620

Stomach bloating and weight gain

Not so. Not most ingested enzymes will be denatured and destroyed upon entering the stomache. Stomach acids do not secrete until the food is ingested and takes a couple of minutes to "gear up" for the meal coming (acinar cells and pancreatic juices). Also as the food hits ...

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by kolean
Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:49 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 484620
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