How does the body regulate the activity of insulin-producing cells in order to react quickly to changing conditions? Researchers have investigated this question.

The hormone insulin plays a central role in the metabolism of many living organisms. When food is plentiful, insulin promotes ...

For several years, Lena Eliasson's research group has explored mechanisms that regulate insulin secretion from beta cells situated in the islets of Langerhans within the pancreas. Together with ...

In addition to impaired insulin secretion, type 2 diabetic patients ... who identified insulin as the anti-diabetic factor produced by the pancreas. This discovery changed the once fatal diagnosis ...

The second meal effect refers to the phenomenon in which the Glycemic Index GI of a preceding meal can have a lasting impact ...

Results from a small sample of Indian males suggest that lean individuals with a history of malnutrition suffer from a distinct type of diabetes characterized by a defect in insulin secretion.

Our perspective about glucose toxicity as it pertains to the pancreatic ß-cell is that the characteristic decreases in insulin synthesis and secretion ... defect in pancreas duodenum homeobox ...

This is a useful study that seeks to address the role of the TET family of DNA demethylation enzymes in pancreatic beta cell senescence in the context of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Although the concepts ...