Cholecystokinin, not insulin, may be key hormone in obesity-driven pancreatic cancer

Obesity increases the body's need for insulin, forcing cells in the pancreas known as beta cells to ramp up insulin ...
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Pancreatic β cells secrete miR-29 in response to high levels of free fatty acids

In a new study published in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Chen-Yu Zhang's group and Antonio Vidal-Puig's group at University of Cambridge report that pancreatic β cells secrete miR-29 family ...
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Successful pancreas transplant can restore body's ability to secrete insulin

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My wife is 31 and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7. She had a baby three months ago, and her blood sugar levels were never really controlled. Doctors tested her kidney ...
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Pancreas cells secrete neuroprotective factor

Conceptual diagram summarizing the central experiment comparing cell death in amyloid-β treated neuronal cells with and without pancreatic β cell culture supernatant. Pancreas cells may produce a ...