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Endocrinology question: you catch your finger while closing a door. you experience extreme pain. does your pancreas activate to help in managing the pain? if so, how? what pathways and mechanisms are involved in calling on the pancreas?
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Pancreas in not involved in the kind of injury you described. Pancreas two main functions (1) Make digestive enzymes and release those into the intestine, (2) Make hormones, the most well known being Insulin, and release those into the blood stream. Wish you good health!
Answered 10/3/2021
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