A Night Out with the Pancreas
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Heidi S.
I like my pancreas(es)-both my old, worn out, c-peptide dead one and my spanky nice, (relatively) new, blue one. Both of them se ...
My Purple Pancreas
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Wingman
Yesterday I promised I would disclose the reason why a 28 year old male chose a purple Minimed pump over a more subdued color. B ...
Artificial Pancreas 1.0
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Dr. Emer
The future of diabetic management is developing: Such a mechanical pancreas could greatly reduce the need for fingersticks and ...
Full Text (HTML) This metabolic relay from the liver to the pancreas is involved in obesity-induced islet expansion. In mouse models of insulin-deficient diabetes, ...
Journal of Clinical Investigation -- Constitutively active Akt1 ... We show that the expression of membrane-targeted Akt under the rat insulin promoter (RIP) triggers distinct growth responses in mouse pancreatic β cells. In addition to β cell hypertrophy, we also observed dysplasia, hyperplasia, ...
Mouse Pancreatic Endocrine Cell Transcriptome Defined in the ... OBJECTIVE—To document the transcriptome of the pancreatic islet during the early and late development of the mouse pancreas and highlight the qualitative and quantitative features of gene expression that contribute to the specification, ...
Jana Kunz Photography » What’s in your drinking water? A January 2006 EHP study on mice indicated that BPA alters the function of mouse pancreatic cells, which produce insulin, suggesting that the chemical may enhance the risk of developing Type II diabetes. Finally, an early 2007 study on ...