| Most Asteroidea are predators or scavengers, everting their stomach, which secretes digestive enzymes on their prey. |
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| Your pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help regulate the metabolism of carbohydrates. |
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| The lac insect sucks the sap from small branches of the Kusumi tree, then secretes through its pores the lac resin. |
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| Among other functions, the pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and produces hormones that help regulate the level of sugar in the blood. |
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| Gluconeogenesis is a process where the liver secretes enzymes necessary to convert amino acids from proteins into glucose. |
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| In Drosophila species, the male accessory gland secretes seminal fluids transferred to the female during copulation. |
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| During delta sleep, the pituitary gland secretes a growth hormone that stimulates tissue repair, allowing muscles to mend. |
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| Each individual, or zooid, is enclosed in a sheath of tissue, the zooecium, that in many species secretes a rigid skeleton of calcium carbonate. |
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| The gall bladder stores and secretes bile, which includes salts used to break down food. |
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| The ventricles each contain a choroid plexus that secretes cerebrospinal fluid. |
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| The organ produces enzymes essential for digestion and secretes hormones that help control blood sugar levels. |
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| There, the infant ichneumon secretes a paralyzing agent while it proceeds to eat the living horntail from the inside out. |
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| The pancreas secretes the hormone insulin which is the key to allowing glucose to enter the cells. |
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| As an example, the beta cell of the anterior lobe of the hypophysis secretes adrenocorticotropic hormone. |
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| The pineal gland in the brain secretes melatonin, which has been linked to depression. |
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| Rhodoliths are a type of algae that secretes a coralline skeleton, a bit like a coral. |
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| Did you know that there's a species of frog on this island that secretes a powerful toxin known as curare? |
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| Synovial membrane is composed of a form of connective tissue, and secretes a glairy fluid resembling the white of egg, named synovia. |
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| Break a stalk, and the plant secretes a growth hormone that causes four or five shoots to bounce back. |
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| The liver removes it from the blood, chemically modifies it, and secretes it into the bile for excretion. |
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| The diphtheria bacillus also secretes an exotoxin that can cause other symptoms such as inflammation of the heart. |
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| Anyone without achlorhydria secretes hydrogen ions from gastric mucosa whether fed orally, by a nasogastric tube, or parenterally. |
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| The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins. |
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| Through the raphe, the living diatom secretes mucilage, with which it may attach to a substrate or move by gliding over the substrate. |
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| Each of us naturally secretes varying amounts of wax into the ear canal. |
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| The glandular epithelium secretes a mucoid fluid rich in glycogen. |
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| This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods. |
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| Also, with the use of analog devices including backwards symbols, vintage keyboards, tape echo and voice distortion, the record secretes vintage appeal. |
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| The skin or epidermis that surround the stomata secretes a waxy cuticle that inhibits the evaporation of water from the epidermal area of the leaf. |
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| The lacrimal gland is in the ventrotemporal part of the orbit and secretes directly beneath the lower lid via single or multiple ducts. |
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| The posterior pituitary gland or neurohypophysis secretes antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin. |
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| Unlike all other living birds, the common ostrich secretes urine separately from faeces. |
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| The plant meanwhile secretes esterase, peroxidase, phosphatase and protease enzymes. |
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| For example, Triphyophyllum is a passive flypaper that secretes mucilage, but whose leaves do not grow or move in response to prey capture. |
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| The corpus luteum secretes hormones that prepare the uterus for a possible pregnancy in the event the ovulated ovum was fertilized. |
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| The endocrine part of the pancreas, the Islets of Langerhans, produces and secretes insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. |
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| The clitellum of each worm secretes mucus to form a slime tube around the earthworms. |
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| The epithelium of the oyster's mantle secretes both the prodissoconch and the postlarval shells, but at different times. |
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| The more of these connections, or cross-links, the longer it takes for enzymes the cell secretes to enter and break down the material. |
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| They are the result of a sensitivity to the hormones prostaglandins, which the body secretes to trigger a period. |
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| The anterior lobe of the hypophysis secretes beta endorphin and ACTH as a reaction to the insertion of an acupuncture needle. |
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| The normal pineal gland secretes melatonin and is located in the supratentorial midline, above the superior colliculi and below the vein of Galen. |
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| The frog's skin also secretes temporin, a tarlike mixture of various peptides, for which the latter part of its scientific name is denoted translated in Latin. |
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| Ductal adenocarcinoma secretes less prostatic serum antigen than acinar adenocarcinoma and it can appear occult on some magnetic resonance imaging sequences. |
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