Beta cells (β cells) are a type of cell in the pancreas located in the islets of Langerhans.

In normal metabolism, the elevated blood glucose level instructs beta (β) cells in the Islets of Langerhans, located in the pancreas, to release insulin into the blood.

So now we're gonna work our way down a bit, we talked about the thyroid gland making the thyroid hormones, and when you get to the pancreas, which is that yellow structure right in the middle, inside of the pancreas there are small islands called the islets of Langerhans, and the islets within the pancreas make endocrine hormones, like insulin and glucagon,

But earlier versions identified the islets as Korean territory.

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The Territory has a total land mass of 96 square kilometres and includes several offshore islets.

Meanwhile, the Republic of Korea and Japan are engaged in a territorial standoff over the islets of Dokdo (called Takeshima in Japanese). In early August, Lee Myung bak became the first South Korean president to visit the islets

Once transplanted, the islets begin to produce insulin, actively regulating the level of glucose in the blood.

It contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island.

I. GENERAL l. The British Virgin Islands comprises nearly 30 islands and islets, 16 of which are inhabited.

But the islets are much closer to the nearest Korean island, Ulleungdo, than to Japan s Okishima.

Martin. The Territory has a relatively flat topography, a total area of 96 square kilometres and includes several offshore islets.

Meanwhile, the Republic of Korea and Japan are engaged in a territorial standoff over the islets of Dokdo (called Takeshima in Japanese).

Inaccessible and the three Nightingale islands, together with two adjacent islets, Middle and Stoltenhoff, are about 32 kilometres from Gough Island.

Sirolimus and tacrolimus, the two main drugs that keep the immune system from destroying the transplanted islets, must be taken for life.

Galapagos lies remote, 600 miles off the coast of South America astride the Equator a scattering of 13 main islands with more than 100 islets, rocks and reefs

It is located on the eastern shore of the island of Zealand, partly on the island of Amager and on a number of natural and artificial islets between the two.

Weeks later, he provocatively visited the contested islets known as the Dokdo Islands in South Korea (which controls them) and the Takeshima Islands in Japan.

China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

2. The Territory has a total area of 53.35 square kilometres and consists of 150 islands and islets extending from north east to south west along the edge of an extinct, submarine volcano.

In early August, Lee Myung bak became the first South Korean president to visit the islets Japan s government responded by proposing to take the sovereignty issue to the International Court of Justice.

The east coast has many islets, bays and coral reefs, and is covered with mangrove forest extending up to 2 km wide before giving way to nipah forest.

The Turks group comprises two inhabited islands, namely, Grand Turk (on which Cockburn Town, the capital, is located) and Salt Cay, as well as eight uninhabited cays and a large number of islets.

During one decade (1992 2002), over 73,000 m3 of marine litter had been gathered on some 300 km of rocky shores on the Swedish west coasts (including thousands of islands and islets), i.e. the easternmost part of the North Sea.

Each atoll group contains from 30 to 50 reef bound islets (motu) varying in length from 90 metres to six kilometres and in width from a few metres to 200 metres.

Moreover, the role and attitude of a rising China must be assessed on a regional basis, particularly given that the long standing dispute over islets in the South China Sea may be entering a new phase.

TOKYO Japan has been in the news lately, owing to its dispute with China over six square kilometers of barren islets in the East China Sea that Japan calls the Senkakus and China calls the Diaoyu Islands.

It comprises South Georgia Island itself (by far the largest island in the territory), and the islands that immediately surround it and some remote and isolated islets to the west and east southeast.

Dokdo is situated midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan s main island, roughly 115 nautical miles from each. But the islets are much closer to the nearest Korean island, Ulleungdo, than to Japan s Okishima.

Further exacerbating the problem (and unlike kidney, liver, and heart transplants, where only one donor is needed for each recipient) most islet transplant patients require islets from two or more donors to achieve euglycemia.

TOKYO They don t look like much, those few uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan, and a couple of tiny islets in the Sea of Japan, inhabited by a few token fishermen and some South Korean Coast Guard officials.

On the day after the contract was published, Venezuelan diplomatic officials in Bogotá wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Granada, requesting that the Los Monjes group of islets be excluded because they belonged to Venezuela rather than to my country.

1. The United States Virgin Islands is situated 75 kilometres east of Puerto Rico and comprises about 50 islands and islets, the largest of which are St. Croix (218 square kilometres), St. Thomas (73 square kilometres) and St. John (52 square kilometres).

1. The United States Virgin Islands is situated 75 kilometres east of Puerto Rico and comprises about 50 islands and islets, the largest of which are St. Croix (218 square kilometres), St. Thomas (73 square kilometres) and St. John (52 square kilometres).

The rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, but the recent flare up, which led to widespread anti Japanese demonstrations in China, started in September when Japan s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.

In recent months, the Government of the United States of Venezuela and the Government of Colombia have expressed, in a cordial, friendly manner through their respective Ambassadors in Bogotá and Caracas, their points of view concerning the legal status of the group of islets known as Los Monjes'.

While the rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, the latest flare up which has included widespread anti Japanese demonstrations in China was triggered in September 2012, when Japan s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.

A few months later, when China and Japan were working to normalize relations, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai about the islets Zhou responded that the dispute should be left to later generations, in order to avoid any delay of normalization.

But the ICJ cannot exercise jurisdiction in the dispute without both countries consent, and South Korea has rejected Japan s proposal, maintaining that Lee was within his authority to visit the islets, given that Dokdo is unquestionably South Korean territory.

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