Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have established a novel transplantation site for islets of Langerhans that enables long ...

The islets of Langerhans play a crucial role in blood sugar regulation. Fayette A Reynolds/Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library via Flickr Diabetes develops when the body fails to ...

Islets of Langerhans and β-cell isolation constitute routinely used cell models for diabetic research, and refining islet isolation protocols and cell quality assessment is a high priority. Numerous ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 4 (January 25, 2011), pp. 1561-1566 (6 pages) Understanding the entry of autoreactive T cells to their ...

The datasets highlight that islets differ in size and quantity within, and between, the various lobes of the pancreas. According to the research team, this emphasises that the pancreas should not be ...

Pancreatic beta cells (β-cells) reside in a cluster of cells in the pancreas known as the islets of Langerhans. Pancreatic β cells are the only cells that produce insulin - a hormone that decreases ...

Researchers have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered how ...

Islets of Langerhans isolated from rat pancreas contain and secrete plasminogen activator (PA). Production of PA is increased up to 15-fold by culture in the presence of high concentrations of glucose ...

I’m going to keep it pretty brief tonight because 1) I’ve been here about 12 hours, and 2) I have an early appointment tomorrow. But what a rousing victory for the Mariners — the best of the year, I’d ...