Sentences with phrase «when islet cells»

But when islet cells begin turning into tumors, the FAK protein gets overproduced, researchers found.

It is critical to monitor insulin needs very closely if an attempt is made to correct high blood sugar using insulin in a dog with acute pancreatitis, in order to avoid the risk of shock due to an over dosage of insulin when the islet cell function returns and the pancreas begins to make insulin normally.

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Most cases of type 1 diabetes occur when the body mistakenly sees the islet cells as a foreign invader and wrecks the thing.

Other mice, with robust beta cells that were good at repairing DNA damage, were able to stay non-diabetic for life, even when those islets were placed under severe cellular stress.

Islet autoimmunity, detected by antibodies that appear when the immune system attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, is a precursor to type 1 diabIslet autoimmunity, detected by antibodies that appear when the immune system attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, is a precursor to type 1 diabislet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, is a precursor to type 1 diabetes.

When the pancreatic islets, small masses of cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, are exposed to high levels of nutrients — as is the case among people who eat a lot — they become inflamed.

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.

When implanted, PEC - 01 cells are expected to differentiate into pancreatic islet cells that produce insulin and other hormones that regulate blood sugar, while the Encaptra device is designed to protect the cells from immune destruction.

When the beta cells decrease in number and disappear from the islets as happens in Type 1 diabetes, then GABA consequently is also decreased and, thereby, the GABA protective shielding of the beta cells.

So too do the islet cells that manufacture insulin in the pancreas die when drugs, nay doctors, whip them to keep producing more insulin when they are tired and sick.

Diabetes occurs when pancreatic islet cells called beta cells are destroyed.

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.