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CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.

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It increased the islet diameter (p<0.001) and beta cell count (p0.05).

Effect of Citrullus colocynthis aqueous seed extract on beta cell regeneration and intra-islet vasculature in alloxan induced diabetic male albino rats

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common metabolic disease of pregnancy characterized by hyperglycemia resulting in insulin resistance or failure of sufficient insulin production by pancreatic beta cells (American Diabetes Association, 2014).

Gestational Diabetes Induces Pancreatic Beta-Cells Apoptosis in Adult Rat Offspring/Diabetes Gestacional Induce Apoptosis de Celulas Beta del Pancreas en Crias de Ratas Adultas

Liu et al., "NADPH oxidase inhibition prevents beta cell dysfunction induced by prolonged elevation of oleate in rodents," Diabetologia, vol.

Oxidative Stress in Pancreatic Beta Cell Regeneration

Life and death of the pancreatic beta cells. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2000; 11(9):375-8.

Apoptosis in pancreatic [beta]-islet cells in Type 2 diabetes

Connective tissue growth factor acts within both endothelial cells and beta cells to promote proliferation of developing beta cells.

Development of the endocrine pancreas and novel strategies for [beta]-cell mass restoration and diabetes therapy

Although mice with different treatments had varied degrees of insulitis and a variable number of beta cells per islet (Figure 2), the pancreatic insulin content in mice treated with ATRA (932 [+ or -] 182 ng/mL, n = 3, P = 0.013) and exendin-4 (705 [+ or -] 479 ng/mL, n = 5, P < 0.02) was significantly higher than that of control mice (41 [+ or -] 9 ng/mL, n = 4) (Figure 3).

Prevention and reversal of diabetes by all-trans retinoid acid and exendin-4 in NOD mice

On the contrary another study suggested that during postnatal development, replication of differentiated beta cells can lead to addition of new beta cells, so high rates of beta cell replication during the neonatal period results in a massive increase in the cell mass (Georgia and Bhushan, 2004).

Postnatal Histogenesis of Islets of Langerhans in Rat

Fontes, "Glucolipotoxicity of the pancreatic beta cell," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, vol.

Update on the protective molecular pathways improving pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction

Critical roles for the TSC-mTOR pathway in beta cell function.

Participacion de la via de senalizacion AKT/mTORC1 en la proliferacion de las celulas [beta] del pancreas

Tests in mice have shown the mix of three drugs and an antiin-flammatory enzyme renews insulin-producing beta cells.

Diabetes cure hope

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which a person's immune system mistakenly destroys the cells that produce insulin (called beta cells).

DIABETICS: CARE URGED

Symptoms of IDDM usually develop over a short period, although beta cell destruction can begin months, even years, earlier.