Islets of Langerhans. Ampulla of Vater. Sphincter of Oddi. Valves of Heister. Crypts of Morgani (he got “columns,” too, like me.) But where’s the cutoff? I don’t get why Gabriele Falloppio ...

It contains millions of small cell clusters, the so-called islets of Langerhans, which function to regulate blood sugar levels in the body. Continue reading The islets chiefly contain beta- and ...

We report an unusual case of Langerhans cell granulomatosis (LCG) manifested as a villous synovial proliferation in a 38-year-old female jogger. One year after the onset of joint symptoms ...

Researchers at Umeå University have succeeded in imaging an entire human organ, a pancreas, in microscopic resolution.

The islets of Langerhans are the regions of the pancreas that contain cells that produce hormones. There are five types of cells in the islets of Langerhans: beta cells secrete insulin ...

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) could stem from disrupted blood cell development, leading to the abnormal expansion of certain cell types, according to a poster presentation from AACR Annual ...

The connection was further narrowed down to the islets of Langerhans, a part of the pancreas. From 1910 to 1920, Oscar Minkowski and others tried unsuccessfully to find and extract the active ...

Diabetes/Metabolism Reviews, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 127. The islets of Langerhans, the primary source of hormone production in the pancreas, have been the focus of research into the nature of diabetes ...

Only rarely does sclerosing cholangitis occur due to Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare disease that infiltrates one or more organs. It is caused by the clonal ...