Regulation of Blood glucose and secondary messenger system

Presentation for A-level / IB on the regulation of blood glucose with reference to the mechanism used for the key hormones. Student worksheet is A3 sheet that offers comprehensive information for self study period. Recommend getting pupils to study the secondary messenger system and text and highlight new key terms that they are unfamiliar with. Resource matches well with presentation slides. Once mechanisms of blood glucose regulation has been reviewed in detail, in conjunction with secondary messenger system, focus should shift to reading and interpreting the graph. Good activity is to get pupils to convert the graph back into a data table and indicate when hormones will be released. Keywords: Glucose, Glucagon, insulin, Glycogen, secondary messenger system, Cyclic AMP, Adenylate cyclase, Diabetes.