Sentences with phrase «ductal cells in the pancreas»

1) The discovery that pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin, have the ability to be regenerated from stem cells or ductal cells in the pancreas, indicating that one potential treatment for type 1 diabetes is to stimulate beta cells to regrow even after many years of living with diabetes

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Furthermore, the normal ductal cells that are able to develop into pancreatic cancer represent about 10 percent of the cells in the pancreas, complicating efforts to pinpoint the changes that occur as the tumor develops.

Finally, analyses of transcriptomic data revealed increased FGF2 expression in ductal, endothelial, and stellate cells in pancreas from T2D patients, whereas FGFR1, SOX, 9 and HES1 expression increased in islets from T2D patients.