ISLET

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islet substantiv

1. insuliţă, insulă mică.

2. pată mică (pe aripile insectelor).

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Islet cells make several different hormones that affect body functions, including controlling the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and helping digest food in the stomach.

(Islet cell carcinoma, NCI Dictionary)

A type of cell in the pancreatic islets that secretes somatostatin.

(Delta Cell of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

A test used to help diagnose a type of pancreatic islet cell tumor called a gastrinoma.

(Calcium infusion test, NCI Dictionary)

Also called islet cell and islet of Langerhans cell.

(Endocrine pancreas cell, NCI Dictionary)

This allele, which encodes islet amyloid polypeptide protein, is involved in the modulation of insulin-stimulated glycogen formation.

(IAPP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A hormone made by the islet cells of the pancreas.

(Insulin, NCI Dictionary)

It usually begins in the duodenum (first part of the small intestine that connects to the stomach) or the islet cells of the pancreas.

(Gastrinoma, NCI Dictionary)

Also called islet cell carcinoma.

(Pancreatic endocrine cancer, NCI Dictionary)

In turn, this stimulates calcium ion influx through voltage-gated calcium channels, raising intracellular calcium ion levels and leading to the release of insulin-containing granules The IKATP channels found in pancreatic islets are complexes of four IKATP 6.2 and four SUR1 subunits.

(Meglitinide Antidiabetic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Some examples of neuroendocrine tumors are carcinoid tumors, islet cell tumors, medullary thyroid cancer, pheochromocytomas, neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin (Merkel cell cancer), small cell lung cancer, and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (a rare type of lung cancer).

(Neuroendocrine tumor, NCI Dictionary)

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