Low Blood Glucose Concentration

• What happens when blood glucose concentration is too low?


  -pancreas releases glucagon

  -glucagon stimulates glycogen to be converted into glucose and released into the blood
• What is the process that occurs when blood glucose levels fall during exercise?


  • Blood sugar falls
  • Pancreas detects the fall
  • Pancreas secretes glucagon
  • Glucagon travels to the liver
  • Liver converts glycogen to glucose
  • Glucose is released into the blood
  • Blood glucose returns to normal
• What hormone does the pancreas release when blood glucose concentration is too low?

  Glucagon
• Symptoms due to the lack of glucose entering cells:


  -tiredness
• What happens to water when there isn’t enough sugar in the blood?

  Water moves from the plasma to the red blood cells by osmosis
• What happens to the red blood cells when there isn’t enough water during low levels of blood sugar?


  Swell and even burst