Your pancreas sends digestive enzymes into your small intestine.

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Visualised using double immunostaining
Colours: red = glucagon antibody, blue = insulin antibody

Generated in Laboratory of nervous system development, FSBI Human Morphology SRI RAMS, Moscow
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Your pancreas sends digestive enzymes into your small intestine.

Your pancreas delivers digestive enzymes into the small intestine through ducts. Those enzymes help break down the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in a meal. This digestive role is separate from the pancreas’s better-known job of releasing blood-sugar-regulating hormones.

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Babies are born with about 300 bones, but adults have only 206.

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You are about a centimeter taller in the morning than at night.

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