NH+Diabetes+Article

=Diabetes Article=

Answer these questions:
//-pancreas, liver, muscle and fat//
 * What are the key players in Diabetes? Why?**

//-hormones from skeleton, immune system -more pertinent when it comes to type 2 diabetes//
 * What are the unexpected key players in Diabetes? Why?**

//-Bones and fat communicate with each other. Fat releases leptin which helps regulate bone metabolism. The bones secrete osteocalcin, which helps secretion and use of insulin.//
 * Explain the connection between bones and fat?**

//-Osteocalcin secreted by the bones could be used as a therapy for type 2 diabetics who have either lost sensitivity or stopped producing insulin in the pancreas.//
 * Explain the connection between bones and the pancreas?**

//-the brain gets signals from insulin, leptin, free fatty acids, and glucose that lets it know what it needs to do to regulate sugar uptake. The brain then sends signals to the hypothalamus, the liver, and the pancreas to do what they need to do in order to regulate blood sugar.//
 * Explain the connection between the brain and diabetes.**

//-Researchers have found macrophages, immune system cells that cause inflammation, in that fat calls of obese mice. They have concluded that there is with obesity comes a chronic inflammation problem due to the macrophages. They believe that whatever the macrophages are doing, what they are secreting, could be the cause of diabetes.//
 * Explain the connection between the immune system and diabetes**

//What are the causes of diabetes, other than the ones that you read about all the time? What causes insulin resistance and slowed/ceased production of insulin? These questions are answered in this article. The connections between different body parts and diabetes is stunning researchers. They have found that bones communicate with fat, not just the opposite (fat communicating with bones). Bones secrete a hormone that helps with use and secretion of insulin. That same hormone communicates with the pancreas as well. Researchers think that they can help treat diabetes with this hormone, so that the patient will have better response to insulin or start producing it again. Researchers have also found that the brain has a lot to do with diabetes. It regulates the signals to secrete certain hormones to regulate blood sugar.//
 * Now summarize the article in a paragraph.**