This is called the exocrine part of the pancreas. The pancreas also makes insulin and glucagon, the hormones that control sugar levels in the blood. This is the endocrine part of the pancreas. Most ...

Since these pivotal discoveries, we now know that islets comprise the endocrine portion of the pancreas. Within islets, beta cells secrete insulin, and alpha cells secrete glucagon. Scientists ...

the pancreas does not secrete insulin, or the cells are not sensitive to its effects. People with diabetes who take insulin are at an increased risk of low blood sugar levels. Glucagon might be ...

The endocrine cells release insulin and glucagon, two hormones that help regulate blood sugar in the body. Despite the pancreas being responsible for multiple functions, there are circumstances in ...

A precisely tuned secretion of insulin versus glucagon is required to ... alpha cells very closely resembled pancreas-derived alpha cells and secreted comparable levels of glucagon.

Mor than 800 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, with numbers steadily increasing.

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) could be a key factor driving the development of insulin-producing cells, according to in vitro data published in the journal Pancreas. The use of islet-cell ...

Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway ...

"An exciting finding was when we tried to treat the obese mice with colon inflammation by lowering their inflammation, it actually stopped the ERK pathway in the liver from activating," explains Imai.