what is role of pancreas
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The pancreas is a six-inch-long gland located in your abdomen near your liver and part of the small intestine. It’s nestled right behind and slightly below your stomach and in front of your spine. The head of the pancreas is along the curve of your duodenum, the first part of the small intestine just beyond the stomach.
The pancreas plays a dual role in your bodily functions:
Endocrine system. The pancreas secretes hormones, including the blood sugar-regulating hormones: insulin and glucagon.
Exocrine system. The pancreas also secretes enzymes into your digestive tract through a duct into your duodenum.
What is the pancreas’ function?
Endocrine system
As part of the endocrine system, the pancreas secretes two main hormones that are vital to regulating your glucose (also known as blood sugar) level:
Insulin.The pancreas secretes this hormone to lower blood glucose when levels get too high.
Glucagon:The pancreas secretes this hormone to increase blood glucose when levels get too low.
Balanced blood glucose levels play a significant role in your liver, kidneys, and even your brain. Proper secretion of these hormones is important to many bodily systems, such as your nervous system and cardiovascular system.
Exocrine system
As part of your exocrine system, the pancreas secretes enzymes that work in tandem with bile from the liver and gallbladder to help break down substances for proper digestion and absorption.
Enzymes produced by the pancreas for digestion include:
- lipase to digest fats
- amylase to digest carbohydrates
- chymotrypsin and trypsin for digesting proteins
The pancreas is part of a larger digestive process that begins in the stomach:
The pancreas produces enzymes as soon as food reaches the stomach.
These enzymes travel through a series of ducts until they reach the main pancreatic duct.
The main pancreatic duct meets the common bile duct, which carries bile from the gallbladder and liver towards the duodenum. This meeting point is called the ampulla of Vater.
Bile from the gallbladder and enzymes from the pancreas are released into the duodenum to help digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins so they can be absorbed by the digestive system.
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here is your answer---
Pancreas is located in the abdomen. It performs two main kind of function.
1) Exocrine function: It helps in the digestion of food. It produces various enzymes such as amylase, lipase and trypsin which helps to digest carbohydrate, fats and proteins respectively.
2) Endocrine function: It produces hormonal insulin which helps to control the amount of sugar present in the blood.
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