It’s always been accepted that beta cells don’t act alone, that they act together with other hormone-producing pancreatic cells – alpha, delta, and gamma cells – to maintain blood glucose ...

It’s not clear if or when there will be a safe, effective way to induce the regeneration of beta cells. In the pancreas, alpha cells store and release glucagon whereas beta cells produce and ...

If a doctor identifies it early, they might discuss experimental therapies like intrauterine blood transfusions followed by stem cell transplantation. Both alpha- and beta-thalassemia minor are ...

A recent study identified that a special group of pancreatic beta cells are crucial for triggering the blood sugar response. We know that beta cells of the pancreas play an important role in ...

These islets also contain other hormone-producing cells—or endocrine cells—that are closely related to beta cells. One of these cell types is alpha cells, which produce glucagon, a hormone ...

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

This protein can be expressed in two forms: ChREBP-alpha and ChREBP-beta. In the presence of high blood glucose, beta cells rely on ChREBP-beta to regenerate. But, in cases of type 2 diabetes ...

Another cell type in the pancreas called alpha-cells are the natural counterpart of beta-cells as they act to increase blood sugar levels by secreting the hormone glucagon.

The hepatic metastases had the same appearance. The results of the histochemical reactions on the tumor and normal alpha and beta cells in human islets are presented in Table 1. The similarity of ...

image: Immunofluorescence images of alpha cells highlighting induction of insulin protein upon loss of SMNDC1 view more Credit: Tamara Casteels, published in Cell Report 2022. Beta cells in the ...