Sentences with phrase «healthy pancreas cells»

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When pancreas cells containing clumps of misfolded IAPP, taken from an engineered diabetic mouse, were mixed in a dish of healthy human pancreas cells, it triggered the clumping of IAPP in the human cells.

We got islet cells from the pancreases of healthy dogs, encapsulated them, and transferred them to diabetic dogs, who became insulin independent.

But matching the precise insulin control achieved by the healthy pancreas is almost impossible, so researchers have hoped for decades to find a way to replace the missing cells.

Image of non-diabetic healthy human islet cells that reside in pancreas.

A ONE - OFF treatment for diabetes is a step closer thanks to a better understanding of how human liver cells can be transformed into something like the beta cells that produce insulin in a healthy pancreas.

The healthy pancreas can at times boost its production of β cells, both in response to injury and to increased demand for insulin — for example, during pregnancy.

Using miR - 192 levels in the cells, the investigators were able to differentiate with very high certainty between normal and chronically inflamed pancreas tissue as well as between healthy pancreas tissue and pancreatic cancer.

Experiments on pancreas organoids — models that are essentially balls of cells sampled from the pancreas of healthy people and pancreatic cancer patients — showed that lowering antioxidant levels within cancerous pancreas cells, or cells on the way to becoming cancerous, kills them.

Its power for promoting healthy blood sugar levels fall in its ability to activate beta cells in the pancreas.

In a healthy individual, the pancreas secretes insulin into the bloodstream where it then transfers glucose into your cells.

Patients with Type - 1 diabetes don't have enough healthy islets of Langerhans cells — hormone - secreting cells of the pancreas.

In normal, healthy animals, cells in the pancreas release insulin automatically when a rise in glucose in the blood is detected.