Aging and Endocrine Pancreas

histological and histomorphometrical study of endocrine pancreas in maquee sheep

this study was conducted to determine the properties of islets of langerhans in pancreas of adult and immature, male and female maquee sheep. for this purpose, 20 samples of pancreas were used equally for each male and female, immature and adult animals. paraffin sections that they were stained by h&e; method were used for mean distribution and dimension of langerhans islets, and maldonado stai...

ENDOCRINE, STEROIDS, and AGING

As everyone matures past the age of the twenties, the body begins to change. There has been a drive for the fountain of youth as long as we have had a recorded history. Since there is no such magic bullet, it is prudent to look at the functioning of the body to determine what are the controlling factors relating to deterioration with age. The same factors that are influenced by age are, not sur...

Development of the endocrine pancreas.

This short review presents the recent breakthroughts in our understanding of the important steps controlling pancreas morphogenesis and differentiation, and on the transcription factors regulating pancreas organogenesis and islet cell differentiation and involved in the specification of the beta and alpha cell lineages. All these studies should permit a comprehensive view of the full genetic pr...

GABA in the Endocrine Pancreas

-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a principal nonpeptidal neurotransmitter with a well-characterized role as an inhibitor of neuronal firing in the CNS (Cherubini et al., 1991; Thomas-Reetz and De Camilli, 1994). GABA is also found in other tissues, such as the endocrine pancreas (Thomas-Reetz and De Camilli, 1994). In the neuron, GABA is synthesized in close proximity to synaptic vesicles, it is pr...

Pancreas: An Endocrine and Exocrine Organ