What is "langerhans"

Usage examples of "langerhans".

When, a little over a decade later, Bayliss and Starling worked out the concept of a hormone, it seemed very likely that the islets of Langerhans were ductless glands producing a hormone and that lack of this hormone brought on diabetes mellitus.

A German anatomist, Paul Langerhans, reported in 1869 that amid the ordinary cells of the pancreas were numerous tiny clumps of cells that seemed marked off from the surrounding tissue.

The clumps have received the romantic-sounding name of islets of Langerhans in honor of their discoverer.

In the diabetic the capacity of the islets of Langerhans to respond to the stimulus of high glucose concentration fails.

If the disease is not detected and is allowed to progress, the islets of Langerhans continue to fail to an increasing extent.

The islets of Langerhans, having once failed, cannot have their function restored by any treatment known to man.

The islets of Langerhans contain two varieties of cells, named alpha cells and beta cells.

For instance, a single large organ just under the stomach seemed to do double-duty for both liver and pancreas, although their equivalent of the Islets of Langerhans appeared to be part of a gland that otherwise corresponded to the adrenal but was located at the base of the spine instead of being paired and over the kidneys.

She hadn't even felt any symptoms until the insulin-producing cells, called the islets of Langerhans, were ninety percent gone, and then it was too late.