Sentences with phrase «islet cell clusters»

Using the material and protein combination, the researchers evaluated multiple locations for implanting the islet cell clusters, the first time such a direct comparison of transplant sites has been made.

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Too little VEGF doesn't grow vessels rapidly enough to maintain the transplanted islets, which are clusters containing hundreds of cells.

Transplantation of pancreatic islets — cell clusters that contain insulin - producing cells — prevents severe, potentially life - threatening drops in blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes, according to new research.

New clinical trial results show that transplantation of pancreatic islets — cell clusters that contain insulin - producing cells — prevents severe, potentially life - threatening drops in blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes.

This is an image of human stem cell - derived beta cells that have formed islet like clusters in a mouse.

GREEN GLOB - LINS Spurred by a dose of misfolded proteins, a 20 - week - old mouse developed clumps of deformed proteins (green) in a cluster of cells called an islet (red) in its pancreas.

Accounting for about 1 percent of all pancreatic cancers, pNET is a cancer of the endocrine cells, known clinically as the islets of Langerhans, which exist in small clusters throughout the pancreas.

When they briefly exposed nestin - positive cells to a growth factor, the cells differentiated not only into neural cells but also into clusters that resemble the insulin - producing islets in the pancreas.

Pancreatic Epithelial Cells Form Islet - Like Clusters in the Absence of Directed Migration.