Islets of Langerhans - Islam, Md. Shahidul; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
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 β-Cell Failure -- Electrophysiology of Islet Cells -- ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels in Health and Disease -- Role of Mitochondria in β-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 β-Cells -- Proteomics and Islet Research -- Wnt Signaling in Pancreatic Islets -- Mechanisms of Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis in Diabetes and Its Therapies -- β-Cell Function in Obese-Hyperglycemic Mice [ob/ob Mice] -- Islet Structure and Function in the GK Rat -- The β-Cell in Human Type 2 Diabetes -- Clinical Approaches to Preserve β-Cell Function in Diabetes -- Immunology of β-Cell Destruction -- Prevention of β-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.
Keywords: Medicine; Cell biology; Diabetes; Bioorganic chemistry; Human physiology; Biomedicine, general; Cell Biology; Diabetes; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Bioorganic Chemistry; Human Physiology