The Islets of Langerhans - Islam, Md. Shahidul; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
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 -- Nutrient Regulation of Insulin Secretion and ?-Cell Functional Integrity -- 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 -- Cyclic AMP Signaling in Pancreatic Islets -- Exocytosis in Islet ?-Cells -- The Novel Roles of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, Angiotensin II, and Vitamin D in Islet Function -- Proteomics and Islet Research -- Wnt Signaling in Pancreatic Islets -- Molecular Pathways Underlying the Pathogenesis of Pancreatic ?-Cell Dysfunction -- 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 -- Toll-Like Receptors and Type 1 Diabetes -- Prevention of ?-Cell Destruction in Autoimmune Diabetes: Current Approaches and Future Prospects -- In Vivo Regeneration of Insulin-Producing ?-Cells -- Customized Cell-Based Treatment Options to Combat Autoimmunity and Restore ?-Cell Function in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Current Protocols and Future Perspectives -- The Programmable Cell of Monocytic Origin (PCMO): A Potential Adult Stem/Progenitor Cell Source for the Generation of Islet Cells -- Islet Isolation for Clinical Transplantation -- Human Islet Autotransplantation: The Trail Thus Far and the Highway Ahead -- Modulation of Early Inflammatory Reactions to Promote Engraftment and Function of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets in Autoimmune Diabetes -- Successes and Disappointments with Clinical Islet Transplantation -- Islet Cell Tumours.
Keywords: Diabetes; Medicine; Cell biology; Cell physiology; Diabetes; Biomedicine, general; Cell Biology; Cell Physiology