Tele Vet Neil McIntosh describes what to watch out for if you decide to try and treat your dog's diabetes yourself.

SC-islet cell organoids – mini-organs that mirror the insulin producing cell clusters outside the body – are widely used to study diabetes and other pancreatic endocrine diseases. But beta cells in ...

Sander now plans to use vascularized SC-islet organoid models to study Type-1 diabetes, which is caused by immune cells attacking and destroying beta cells in the pancreas – in contrast to Type ...

In the pancreas, islet cells thrive in clusters and are the cellular constituents that exist in alpha and beta forms. They make up the islets of Langerhans, defined groups of cells within the ...

Insulin-producing cells, also called beta cells, are located in regions of the pancreas called islets of Langerhans. They are present in clusters of cells that produce other hormones involved in ...

The importance of beta cells in diabetes Beta cells are situated in the mysterious-sounding islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. They are responsible for creating, storing, and releasing insulin.

Since the islets of Langerhans make up only a few percent of the pancreas, even though they occur in such large numbers, they have historically been very difficult to study directly within the ...

A closer look reveals an interesting internal structure, with islets of cells known as islets of Langerhans, after their discoverer, containing the hormone-producing (endocrine) cells.

"Using omics analysis of human islets from healthy donors, we were able to identify alpha cells that have the potential to generate insulin-producing beta cells," Garcia-Ocaña said.

Since the 1970s, clinicians have known that people with type 1 diabetes can be treated by transplanting pancreatic islets – clusters of insulin-producing “beta cells” – from a healthy organ donor. The ...

However, the study faced limitations. The authors of the study describe the case as isolated, involving 1 child with T1D with hallmark islet damage and significant destruction of beta cells.

SARS-CoV-2 may use ACE2 or other enzymes as a receptor to infect beta cells, providing a possible explanation behind new-onset diabetes occurring in people with COVID-19, according to a speaker ...