pancreatic islets

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pancreatic islets

(or islets of Langerhans) Scattered endocrine regions in the pancreas that produce glucagon and insulin.

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The greatest number of ghrelin-ip cells was found in the islets, and the cell density decreased gradually from the pancreatic islets to the extrainsular regions.

Distribution and Morphology of Ghrelin-Immunopositive Cells in the Pancreas of the African Ostrich

In persons with T1D, insulin-making beta cells, located in regions of the pancreas known as pancreatic islets, are damaged.

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Beta cell count decreased in alloxan-treated rats and treatment with CCT extract significantly increased the number of beta cells in pancreatic islets in groups B2 and C2 which received CCT extract in low and high dose respectively; however, mean number of beta cells in group B2 was not significantly different from group A2.

Effect of Citrullus colocynthis aqueous seed extract on beta cell regeneration and intra-islet vasculature in alloxan induced diabetic male albino rats

This technology will be transferred into three projects of increasing complexity and ambition: making in vitro models of pancreatic islets, the pituitary gland, and a mouse blastocyst.

ORCHESTRATE: Building complex life through self-organization: from organ to organism

Diabetic patients' own cells will be collected, transformed first into stem cells and then differentiated into stem-cell derived pancreatic islets (SC-islets) to use as an investigational cell therapy for diabetes.

$5M from CIRM to develop novel stem-cell derived treatment for diabetes

A long term study on primates showed that it altered the blood glucose levels as well as the histology of pancreas showing hyalinization of pancreatic islets of langerhans8.

VARIATION IN THE AREA OF ISLETS OF LANGERHANS IN SODIUM CYCLAMATE TREATED RATS

KYOTO - Kyoto University Hospital said Friday it successfully transplanted pancreatic islets from a brain-dead donor to a diabetes patient on Sunday.

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2] adrenergic receptor on whole-body glucose homeostasis and insulin secretion on pancreatic islets.

Pancreatic islets isolated from [[beta].sub.2] adrenergic receptor knockout mice show reduced insulin secretion in response to nutrients/Ilhotas pancreaticas isoladas de camundongos com delecao do receptor adrenergico [[beta].sub.2] apresenta reduzida secrecao de insulina em resposta a nutrientes

3 found that vitamin D deficiency inhibited the insulin secretion of the rat pancreatic islets.

25-Hydroxyvitamin D is closely related with the function of the pancreatic islet b cells

It contains 11 chapters by surgeons from the US and UK who discuss living donation, new surgical techniques, living-donor liver transplantation, antibody-incompatible transplantation, pancreas transplantation, allotransplantation of pancreatic islets, new cell therapies, intestinal transplantation, pediatric renal transplantation, and immunosuppressive pharmacotherapy.

Abdominal organ transplantation; state of the art

Their pancreatic islets secreted high levels of insulin in the presence of increasing glucose concentrations and 30 mM K(+).

Taurine supplementation prevents morpho-physiological alterations in high-fat diet mice pancreatic B-cells

The team now intends to develop methods for the mass generation of pancreatic islets at lower cost for the treatment of diabetes through transplantation, while working towards shortening the one-month period currently required for creating pancreatic islets.