Islets of Langerhans

Abstract

edited by Md. Shahidul Islam.

Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Islet of Langerhans -- The Comparative Anatomy of Islets -- Approaches for Imaging Islets: Recent Advances and Future Prospects -- Islet Cell Development -- High Fat Programming of -Cell Failure -- Electrophysiology of Islet Cells -- ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels in Health and Disease -- Role of Mitochondria in -cell Function and Dysfunction -- Basement Membrane in Pancreatic Islet Function -- Calcium Signaling in the Islets -- Electrical Bursting, Calcium Oscillations, and Synchronization of Pancreatic Islets -- Exocytosis in Islet -Cells -- Proteomics and Islet Research -- Wnt Signaling in Pancreatic Islets -- Mechanisms of Pancreatic -Cell Apoptosis in Diabetes and Its Therapies -- -Cell Function in Obese-Hyperglycemic Mice [ob/ob Mice] -- Islet Structure and Function in the GK Rat -- The -Cell in Human Type 2 Diabetes -- Clinical Approaches to Preserve -Cell Function in Diabetes -- Immunology of -Cell Destruction -- Prevention of -Cell Destruction in Autoimmune Diabetes: Current Approaches and Future Prospects -- Islet Isolation for Clinical Transplantation -- Human Islet Autotransplantation: The Trail Thus Far and the Highway Ahead -- Modulation of Early Inflammatory Reactions to Promote -- Successes and Disappointments with Clinical Islet Transplantation -- Exercise-induced pancreatic islets adaptations in health and disease -- Role Reg family proteins on islet cell growth and survival -- Circadian control of islet function -- Zinc Transporters in the pancreas -- Making Islets from Human Embryonic Stem Cells -- Chloride channels and Transporters in ß-cell physiology -- Pancreatic beta cells in metabolic syndrome -- Insulin and IGF-1 receptor signalling in insulin secreting cells -- Beta cell store-operated ion channels -- Isolation of Rodent Islets of Langerhans -- Anionic Transporters and Channels in Pancreatic Islet Cells -- Glucose-Induced Apoptosis in Pancreatics Islets -- In Vivo Biomarkers for Detection of Beta Cell Death -- Inflammatory Pathways Linked to Beta Cell Demise in Diabetes -- Islet Encapsulation -- Islet Isolation for Autotransplantation -- Islet Xenotransplantation: recent advances and future prospects -- Molecular basis of cAMP signaling in pancreatic beta cells -- NADPH Oxidase in Beta Cell Dysfunction -- Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors -- Physiological and Pathophysiological Control of Glucagon Secretion by Pancreatic Alpha-Cells -- Reproductive Hormones and Islet Adaptation to Metabolic Stress -- Stem Cells in Pancreatic Islets -- Transcriptional co-Activators in Beta-Cell Function and Disease Pathology.