Tissue Specific Metabolism

Question 1

Pancreas secretes

Answer 1

Insulin and glucagon in response to changes in blood glucose concentration

Question 2

Brain transports

Answer 2

ions to maintain membrane potentiel: sends signals to other organs

Question 3

Liver processes ……………. and synthetizes and distributes …………….

Answer 3

fats, carbs, proteins
lipids, ketone bodies and glucose for other tissues and converts excess N to urea

Question 4

Cardiac muscles use

Answer 4

ATP generated aerobically to pump blood

Question 5

Portal vein carries

Answer 5

nutrients from intestine to liver

Question 6

Lymphatic system carries

Answer 6

lipids from intestine to liver

Question 7

Small intestine absorbs

Answer 7

nutrients and moves them into blood or lymphatic system

Question 8

Adipose tissue synthetizes, stores and mobilizes

Answer 8

triacylglycerols

Question 9

Brown adipose tissues carries out

Answer 9

thermogenesis

Question 10

Skeletal muscle uses

Answer 10

ATP generated aerobically or anaerobically to do mechanical work

Question 11

White Adipose Tissue is located

Answer 11

Under skin, around major blood vessels iand abdoment

Question 12

Brown adipose tissue is located

Answer 12

under the skin (chest and back)

Question 14

Where is the site of metabolic processing in the liver?

Answer 14

Hepatocytes

Question 15

What are hormones that regulate activities in enzymes of the liver?

Answer 15

Insulin, glucagon, epinephrin, leptin

Question 16

What can skeletal muscle use for energy?

Answer 16

FA, ketone bodies and glucose

Question 17

Glucose undergoes ………… glycolysis

Answer 17

aerobic

Question 18

What helps to continue anaerobic glycolysis?

Answer 18

Lactic acid

Question 19

What helps in using glucose from blood and glycogen in muscle?

Answer 19

Epinephrine

Question 20

Lactate is converted to

Answer 20

glucose in liver after recovery from activity

Question 21

What are the sources of ATP in in muscle metabolism?

Answer 21

Phosphocreatine (+ADP) to creatine (+ATP)

Question 22

What kind of metabolism is cardiac muscle?

Answer 22

Aerobic metabolism

Question 23

Where is cardiac muscle?

Answer 23

Abundant in mitochondria

Question 24

What does cardiac muscle use?

Answer 24

Mainly FA but also ketone bodies and glucose

Question 25

What is cardiac muscle sensitive to?

Answer 25

O2 deprivation

Question 26

What are neurons dependent on in the brain?

Answer 26

Glucose for energy

Question 27

What kind of metabolism is the brain?

Answer 27

Aerobic metabolism

Question 28

The brain can use

Answer 28

B-hydroxybutyrate

Question 29

Does the brain have stores glycogen?

Answer 29

No

Question 30

In cases of starvation or fasting what does the brain use?

Answer 30

Ketone bodies from FA or glucose from gluconeogenesis