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SUBMITTER: Ionescu-Tirgoviste C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4586491 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ionescu-Tirgoviste Constantin C Gagniuc Paul A PA Gubceac Elvira E Mardare Liliana L Popescu Irinel I Dima Simona S Militaru Manuella M
Scientific reports 20150929
Islets of Langerhans are fundamental in understanding diabetes. A healthy human pancreas from a donor has been used to asses various islet parameters and their three-dimensional distribution. Here we show that islets are spread gradually from the head up to the tail section of the pancreas in the form of contracted or dilated islet routes. We also report a particular anatomical structure, namely the cluster of islets. Our observations revealed a total of 11 islet clusters which comprise of small ...[more]