On Mar 11, 4:09=A0pm, The Song Remains The Spang
<serenejoaq...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 11, 7:28 am, suzee <suz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote after I told her
> that Lexie informed the viewers that the Pancreas is a gland:
>
> > I know she did, but I believe it really is an organ. It's part of the
> > endocrine system... Didn't Lexie graduate from the overnight school of
m=
edicine anyway...?
>
> ****Even if you don't like/appreciate the fact that Suzee and I often
> do not see eye to eye, this is about Bo's disease on the show and it's
> really QUITE fascinating, in my humble opinion. I learned stuff I had
> no idea about which, in turn, will help us, as viewers to understand
> WHY Bo's character could die even though he does not have Pancreatic
> *CANCER* like his sister Isabella Toscano did.****
>
> No, actually it's a MIXED exocrine and endocrine gland, Suzee. Don't
> make fun of Lexie or the writers until you've looked at the background
> behind WHY the writers would have her say such a thing, ok? She called
> it a gland for a *reason* and she downplayed the fact that it's an
> organ because it's so very different from various other organs in the
> body, thus making it so important to Bo's survival. The pancreas is
> super cool. It's like your BRAIN and it's got different lobes. They
> operate different functions, yet without all of them working
> accordingly EVERYTHING could shut down. In fact, if you have Acute
> Pancreatitis, the lytic enzymes within can DIGEST the entire pancreas
> all together! Very amazing, but indeed sad.
>
> I checked it out and it's indeed fascinating.....It's a lobulated
> organ where different parts perform different functions. It's also a
> gland that secretes hormones and insulin. It performs exocrine AND
> endocrine functions, but ACTUALLY, Suzee, the VAST MAJORITY of the
> clusters of cells (also called acini) in the pancreas actually perform
> EXOCRINE functions. Only a few perform endocrine functions and they
> are referred to as the Exocrine Islets of Langerhans . There's a
> longitudal section and a smaller cross section that perform exocrine
> funcitions. These groupings of cells are fewer and further between
> within the pancreas and they look sort of like a river and a little
> creek within the mess of the other cells.
>
> The majority of the cells within the pancreas perform ENDOCRINE
> functions because they secrete fluid into ducts, which doesn't occur
> with the endocrine cells. The exocrine cells don't secrete fluids.
> There are alpha cells and beta cells. The alpha cells secrete, the
> beta cells do not. The alpha cells are far more plentiful and have a
> darker pink "stain" to them because of it. In fact, the small amount
> of EXOCRINE cells don't even cluster themselves into acini (which are
> like little clustered "posses" of cells, if you will...) at all.
> They're long, sort of like chicken strips or french fries if they were
> placed on a plate with corn or rice all around it. The endocrine cells
> have strings of cappalaries going through them, while the endocrine
> ones do not. The endocrine ones produce hormones.
>
> In Bo's situation on the show, if his Pancreas quits producing certain
> enzymes that are necessary for him to digest his food, he will die. He
> could *ALSO* wind up with severe Diabetes. That was why even though
> Lexie told him that the cells in his pancreas are not cancerous, he's
> still SEVERELY at risk because the pancreas performs so many other
> functions and it supports the liver, as well. The cells don't have to
> be cancerous in order for the pancreas to still shut down completely.
>
> I found all of this out in less than 15 minutes off a doctor from UC
> SanFrancisco's =A0website. He has a PhD. I think that before you diss on
> the writers and the characters on the show, Suzee, that you should
> research a little of what you're saying in the first place. The
> writers have GOT to know that some of the people watching the show
> have a medical background, after all. The endocrine functions are
> actually FEW and FAR between in the pancreas compared to the exocrine
> functions, yet there you were defending the endocrine part of it and
> dissing on Lexie.
>
> The whole endocrine system is a series of freakin' glands, Suzee, so
> you trying to argue "It's an organ! It's an organ! And it's part of
> the Endocrine System, in fact, Spangles! It's an organ!" is pointless.
> It's a *lobular* organ that is vastly different than the majority of
> all of the other organs in the whole entire body. The heart, which is
> of dire importance to survival, of course, isn't even divided in such
> a complexly delicate way, really, it's divided into chambers, sort of
> like a cow's stomach, except the cow's got even more chambers
> involved. The pancreas is a *VERY* delicate gland that's divided up
> like the brain is: into lobes. All OVER the web the GLANDULAR
> functions of the pancreas are highlighted and the fact that it's an
> organ is downplayed, Suzee, because of what it secretes and because it
> is hidden behind various other organs.
>
> The hormone producing *ENDOCRINE* cells only compose between 1 and 2%
> of the entire pancreas, (LOL!!!!) Suzee, so WHY did you even BOTHER to
> argue that point? Look up Islets of Langerhans and you'll see.( That
> doesn't mean the endocrine functions are unimportant, of course,
> because they are, but you didn't even bother to look up the exocrine
> ones and THAT's why Lexie has stressed the word *Gland* so many times
> this week and last over the word *Organ*.) Endocrine cells have no
> ducts, Suzee. They're vascular and are used for storage, not
> secretion.
>
> <<Shaking my head at you....I'm SO tired of you saying things to me
> and to Ice and/or to others with such a matter of fact School Marm
> attitude and being either wrong or astronomically misguided. It's not
> just frustrating any longer, it's DISAPPOINTING, Suzee...>>
>
> S*Babykins
Lil' correction:
AGGGGH! That should read in that one sentence "the majority of the
cells perform EXOCRINE functions", like I said in the other
paragraphs. Science is enough to make a girl dizzy.
S*Babykins
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