Everyday habits such as heavy drinking and unhealthy eating can gradually damage the pancreas. Once injured, the consequences ...

Gut microbes can regulate the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and hormone production of the gastrointestinal tract, findings that may help develop potential treatments for diabetes ...

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For many patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and selected patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, a successful pancreas transplant is the only definitive long-term treatment that both restores ...

Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas. Without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant islets ...

Scientists have identified a protein that is necessary for secretion of digestive enzymes by the pancreas. The research, published in the September issue of Developmental Cell, enhances the ...

(He was not a part of the research that found 40 percent of pancreatic function is lost at the pre-diabetes stage — the stage at which blood glucose levels are deemed high enough to warrant concern ...

The pancreas produces endocrine hormones and pancreatic digestive enzymes. The hormone function is called the endocrine pancreas. Insulinomas are tumors on the pancreas that cause the tumor to make ...

University of Utah Health is a comprehensive, Medicare-approved pancreas transplant program. We take a multidisciplinary approach to your care, offering you access to all the specialists you need: You ...

An annular pancreas is a rare congenital deformity (one that you are born with) that affects the pancreas. It happens when your pancreas doesn’t develop as it should. Instead, a ring of extra ...