Sentences with phrase «secreting cells of the pancreas»

Levels of thyroid hormone in babies influence insulin - secreting cells of the pancreas, according to a new study published in The Journal of Physiology.
This pathway was not considered to be important in the insulin - secreting cells of the pancreas and thus was overlooked in the search for diabetes genes.
One study actually found that this antioxidant effect was able to provide protection for the insulin - secreting cells of the pancreas and therefore improve insulin response (2).
Patients with Type - 1 diabetes don't have enough healthy islets of Langerhans cells — hormone - secreting cells of the pancreas.
An insulinoma is a tumor of the insulin - secreting cells of the pancreas (i.e., the pancreatic islet cells).

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Insulin is secreted by the pancreas, and is responsible for carrying sugar into the cells of the body where it can be used for energy.
The most intriguing mutant type of mice were unusually thin; they generated more active osteocalcin, secreted more insulin, and produced many times more of the insulin - releasing cells in the pancreas.
As such, scientists hypothesise that cathelicidins may be involved in the control of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where certain cells in the immune system attack beta cells in the pancreas which secrete insulin.
Gobbling a slice of sweet pumpkin pie, for instance, causes beta cells in the pancreas to secrete insulin, a hormone that allows the uptake of glucose and most amino acids into the tissues.
When blood sugar levels are too high, the beta cells of the pancreas secrete insulin which stimulates the uptake of glucose.
Quiescent PSCs in a normal pancreas act as lipid - storing cells with a limited secretome, whereas activated PSCs in the tumor microenvironment produce a vast array of secreted proteins implicated in cancer progression.
Type I diabetes is characterized by insulin deficiency primarily caused by the autoimmune - mediated destruction of insulin secreting beta cells located in the pancreas.
«It was surprising to discover that these neurons are involved not only in the control of the intake, which was already known, but also involved in the control of the amount of insulin secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas,» explains Zorzano, Head of the Laboratory of Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria at IRB Barcelona.
Secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas 2.
Insulin is secreted by β cells of the pancreas in response to increased circulating levels of glucose and amino acids after a meal.
As a result, the increased acetate stimulated the beta cells of the pancreas to secrete more insulin in response to glucose.
With type 1.5 diabetes an autoimmune reaction destroys cells of the pancreas, but the pancreas still secretes insulin — autoimmune damage is not advanced enough to shut down insulin function.
Insulin is a hormone secreted by the beta cells of the pancreas into the bloodstream in response to the ingestion of food.
The faster a food is converted into blood sugar (e.g. with high G.I. foods), the higher the blood sugar levels get and the more insulin is secreted by the pancreas to help the cells of your body absorb the sugar.
Eventually, the cells become resistant to the effects of insulin, and the pancreas overcompensates even further by secreting more.
An inconsistent rising and falling of blood sugar from processed foods burn out the cells of the pancreas responsible for secreting insulin.
As a result, the cell nucleus doesn't hear the signal and doesn't call your pancreas to secrete the appropriate amount of insulin needed.
This insulin resistance then requires the pancreas to secrete more and more insulin to overcome this resistance which leads to higher and higher insulin levels which leads to more and more deposition of fat into fat cells resulting in obesity as well as metabolic syndrome which entails diabetes, hypertension, and vascular disease, ie heart disease and strokes.
The hormone insulin is secreted by beta - cells, and glucagon is secreted by α - cells that are clumped together in little islands (islets of Langerhans) in the pancreas.
B - cells of pancreas create or secrete a hormone known as insulin but due to the failure of these cells sometimes pancreas fail to secrete the insulin hormone.
There are other theories as to why amyloid accumulates in the cat's pancreas, some associate it with a compound called IAPP which the pancreatic ß cells secrete in the process of producing insulin.
EPI, Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, is the inability of the acinar cells of the exocrine pancreas to produce and secrete the necessary enzymes needed to digest food.
Diabetes results when either the islets cells of the pancreas lack the ability to secrete adequate levels of insulin in response to absorbed dietary glucose, or the cellular insulin receptors are unresponsive to insulin.
Chemo - receptors in the blood vessels detect the spike in blood glucose, and then signal the islet cells of the pancreas to secrete a hormone called insulin.
If the cat has suffered from diabetes long enough that the pancreas has been irreparably damaged and the pancreatic cells that secrete insulin have been «burned out», the cat will be beyond cure and will need to be treated for diabetes for the rest of his life.
The accumulation of visceral fat is dangerous, since these fat cells actively secrete hormones that can disrupt the functioning of the liver, pancreas, and brain, causing problems such as insulin resistance, inflammation and metabolic syndrome.
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