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an independent team of operatives who work together in a CELLULAR MANUFACTURING production environment.

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In the buffalo pancreas, the small islets sometimes showed cords of alpha cell crossing the centre of the islets (Lucini et al., 1998).

Postnatal Histogenesis of Islets of Langerhans in Rat

"People without diabetes can control blood glucose levels so tightly because we have both beta and alpha cells working on it.

Stepwise progress toward an artificial pancreas

The molecule activates adult pancreatic beta and alpha cell populations.

Pancreatic stem cell proliferator boosts beta, alpha cell populations

Conversely, alpha cells secrete glucagon, a hormone that triggers tissues to release sugar into the bloodstream.

Flies "R" us: fruit fly cells mimic the mammalian pancreas

Positive expression result showed that the tumor originated from pancreatic alpha cells. In addition, we were performed staining for carcinoembryonic antigen and Ki-67 protein.

Glucagonoma as a rare case of neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas: a case report

As expected, some of the cells had similar gene-expression patterns to cells that produce hormones in the human pancreas: glucagon-producing alpha cells and insulin-producing beta cells.

Boosting The Yield Of Insulin-Producing

Pancreatic endocrine cells include all hormone-producing cells, such as insulin-producing beta cells and glucagon-producing alpha cells, within the islet of Langerhans, whereas the duct cells are epithelial cells that line the ducts of the pancreas.

Breakthrough In Pancreas Research Could Ease Manufacturing Of Islet Cells: Step Toward Replacement Therapy In Type 1 Diabetes

In a 68-year-old alcoholic, the number of beta cells decreased, and the alpha cells increased (Fig.

MICROANATOMIC STUDY OF HUMAN PANCREATIC ISLETS IN ALCOHOLICS AND NON-ALCOHOLICS--A DESCRIPTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY

The prevailing theory is that this decrease in the I:G ratio is caused by beta-cell apoptosis and transdifferentiation to alpha cells. T2DM patients also have increased amyloid deposits, the result of increased islet amyloid polypeptide.

Pancreatopathy of pancreatic cancer distinct from that of T2DM

Glucagon is synthesised in the alpha cells of the pancreas in response to low PGC.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus

This in turn causes enhanced glucagon production by alpha cells in the pancreas.

Dapagliflozin-Associated Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis in a Patient Presenting with Acute Pancreatitis

In early 2017, in a paper published in the journal Cell, a European team reported that the antimalarial drug artemether could convert alpha cells into functional beta cells.