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a small island
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"The consistency with which we were able to induce and maintain tolerance to transplants in nonhuman primates makes us very hopeful that our findings can be confirmed for the benefit of patients in planned clinical trials in pancreatic islet and living-donor kidney transplantation - it would open an entirely new era in transplantation medicine."
Scientists remove need for anti-rejection drugs in transplant recipients
The alcoholism has a major effect on pancreatic islets cells and their insulin secretion.
MICROANATOMIC STUDY OF HUMAN PANCREATIC ISLETS IN ALCOHOLICS AND NON-ALCOHOLICS--A DESCRIPTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY
Wang et al., "Oxygen environment and islet size are the primary limiting factors of isolated pancreatic islet survival," PLoS One, vol.
The Fate of Allogeneic Pancreatic Islets following Intraportal Transplantation: Challenges and Solutions
Piemonti, "Alternative transplantation sites for pancreatic islet grafts," Current Diabetes Reports, vol.
The Optimal Timing for Pancreatic Islet Transplantation into Subcutaneous Scaffolds Assessed by Multimodal Imaging
Swenne, "Microcarriers: a new approach to pancreatic islet cell culture," In Vitro, vol.
Three-Dimensional Bioreactor Technologies for the Cocultivation of Human Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells and Beta Cells
Stainier, "Thyroid hormone coordinates pancreatic islet maturation during the zebrafish larval-to-juvenile transition to maintain glucose homeostasis," Diabetes, vol.
The Roles of Thyroid and Thyroid Hormone in Pancreas: Physiology and Pathology
In the pancreatic endocrine portion, ghrelin-ip cells were located among the pancreatic islet cells, and and the distribution of ghrelin-ip cells was observed mostly at the periphery of the islet, a few ghrelin-ip cells were found in the central portion of pancreatic islets.
Distribution and Morphology of Ghrelin-Immunopositive Cells in the Pancreas of the African Ostrich
Chronic Oxidative stress as a central mechanism for glucose toxicity in pancreatic islet Beta cells in diabetes.
Effect of Citrullus colocynthis aqueous seed extract on beta cell regeneration and intra-islet vasculature in alloxan induced diabetic male albino rats
MSG-obese rats presented morbid obesity, NAFLD, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, hyperleptinemia, and pancreatic islet hyperfunction (15-17).
Duodenal-jejunal bypass normalizes pancreatic islet proliferation rate and function but not hepatic steatosis in hypothalamic obese rats
Increasing evidence suggests that metabolic stress (glucose, free fatty acids, and human amyloid polypeptide) appears to activate the IL-1 system through the NLRP3 inflammasome in pancreatic islet [19, 22, 23].
Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome by Advanced Glycation End Products Promotes Pancreatic Islet Damage

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