Sentences with phrase «on cells of the pancreas»

Type 1 diabetics would benefit more from a low carbohydrate and low glycemic diet as the nature of the type 1 is an autoimmune attack on the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin.

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Four years ago, the research team of Pedro Herrera (University of Geneva) first cast doubt on this assumption when they demonstrated that a few alpha cells in the pancreas of genetically modified diabetic mice changed into beta cells.

Naidoo is also senior author of a follow - up study in Aging Cell this month that shows, for the first time, an effect of sleep deprivation on the UPR in peripheral tissue, in this case, the pancreas.

The scientists already knew how to encourage mouse embryonic stem cells to express nestin, and they wondered if they could coax their nestin - positive cells to take on more characteristics of pancreas cells.

Ron McKay and his colleagues at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, usually focus on brain development, but they were intrigued by recent papers reporting that some pancreas cells express nestin, a protein typical of developing neural cells.

Indeed, the number of β cells / mm2 of pancreas in the Tg / Tg group was on average > 60 % lower in comparison with Tg / WT mice (Fig. 4 E).

Further research uncovered a broad spectrum of cell surface stem cell markers (e.g., CD133, CD44, and CD24) that allow the identification of CSCs in human solid tumors, including brain, breast, prostate, pancreas, liver, ovary, skin, colon cancers, and melanoma (3 - 6)(Figure 1 based on 7).

To this end, we are focusing on two aspects of β - cell regeneration: enhancing β - cell proliferation in vivo and stimulating the differentiation of new β - cells from endogenous progenitors in the pancreas.

To assess the expression of Tie2 and other Ang / Tie signalling molecules on human pericytes, a microarray - based expression profiling of human brain pericytes (BP), placenta pericytes, pancreas pericytes (PA), lung pericytes (LP), muscle pericytes (MP) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) was performed.

Group II and III mGluRs are present in synapses that can either excite or inhibit the vagal nerve cells that send signals to the pancreas, and different outcomes can be seen depending on which group of mGluRs glutamate acts upon.

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.

His research focuses generally on the development of the pancreas and more specifically on stem cells, particularly those that might be important in the treatment of diabetes.

Scientists working on one of the new studies used human cells, mouse cells and live mice to study what happens when fructose meets the pancreas.

The impetus obtained from earlier studies on these rats demonstrates an inflammatory milieu peaking between 6 and 9 months of age in adipose, pancreas, and bone marrow / mesenchymal stem cells.

Research is already underway at City of Hope to unlock the immune system's role in diabetes, including T cell modulation and stem cell - based therapies that may reverse the autoimmune attack on islet cells in the pancreas, which is the cause of T1D.

Number one, the pancreas releases low amounts of insulin or number two, the cells develops insulin resistance, by not allowing the insulin to bind to receptors on the cells» membrane which would normally allow the entrance of glucose into the cell.

It has to do with the level of abuse you have put on your pancreas and the cells of your body with high sugar foods and massive carbohydrate consumption.

Interestingly, recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that fructose can activate taste cells found on your pancreas, a reaction that can increase your body's secretion of insuliniv.

It may also have a stimulating effect on the pancreas to promote the production of insulin, the molecule that carries glucose to cells.

Despite the attack on the beta cells, the remaining function of the pancreas for digestion and production of other important hormones usually remains intact.

Recent research shows that fructose can activate taste cells found on your pancreas, a reaction that can increase your body's secretion of insulin and raise your risk of type 2 diabetes

Elevated blood sugar also places a heavy burden on the beta cells of the pancreas to produce high amounts of insulin in an attempt to shuttle the sugar into the body's cells.

A novel investigative study published in the Nov 2014 issue of the Journal of Endocrinology looked at the effects of curcumin on insulin - producing cells within the pancreas called Beta cells (or B - cells) and Islet cells, in relation to imbalanced blood sugar.

Which therapeutic regimen to choose depends partly on the number of functionally active beta cells in the pancreas and, of course, on the response of individual dogs to treatment.

Although I am not a veterinarian, based on your description I believe there is a good chance that your ferret has insulinomas, which are small tumors of the beta cells of the pancreas that make a ferret's blood sugar drop.