like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

Insulin is produced in the Pancreas, what happens if the pancreas is not producing insulin properly? so.. no insulin.

Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association Pancreas transplantation at the University of Illinois at Chicago

I didn't even know what a pancreas was.

I didn't even know what a pancreas was!

It's made up of a mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas,

Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

As the pancreas is stimulated to secrete enzymes by the presence of food in the stomach, having no food pass through the system allows the pancreas to rest.

Your pancreas makes insulin to bring it back down, which is good.

If insulin resistance exists, more insulin needs to be secreted by the pancreas.

Trying to replace pancreas, trying to replace nerves that can help us with Parkinson's.

If you present with a diseased pancreas we'd like to take cells from that organ.

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,

The location of the pain can indicate the part of the pancreas where a tumor is located.

Glucokinase occurs in cells in the liver, pancreas, gut, and brain of humans and most other vertebrates.

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

I had a scan at 7 30 am and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas

Hypothalamus in the midbrain, pituitary gland nestled close by, thyroid, here, pancreas, here, adrenals, here, ovaries, here.

In 1988, at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

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

Collagenase solution is injected into the pancreatic duct which runs through the head, body and tail of the pancreas.

I had a scan at 7 30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.

The tail of the pancreas, located anatomically left near the hilum of the spleen, is not simply an anatomical distinction.

This is not like human insulin this is the same protein that is chemically indistinguishable from what comes out of your pancreas.

As soon as enough insulin has been produced, another signal protein comes to the pancreas' cells that tells them to stop making insulin.

To get it, some of your cells send a protein signal through the bloodstream to the cells in your pancreas, where insulin is made.

Beta cells (insulin secretory) and delta cells (somatostatin secretory) are found in the central part of the tail as with the rest of the pancreas.

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.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

And today we can obtain cells from most every organ in your body, except for several which we still need stem cells for, like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).

So if a 15 year old who didn't even know what a pancreas was could find a new way to detect pancreatic cancer just imagine what you could do.

S And it seems, just structurally, you have the pancreas right here, you have the adrenal glands right there, they're all kinda near that interchange...because they're all so important...

The first of these is natural selection that's random mutation and selective retention along with our basic anatomy and physiology the evolution of the pancreas or the eye or the fingernails.

The first of these is natural selection that's random mutation and selective retention along with our basic anatomy and physiology the evolution of the pancreas or the eye or the fingernails.

An alternative to the chemo would have been surgery that involved removing the pancreas along with portions of the stomach and liver, which would have meant a long recovery and stay in a nursing home.

Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach, into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.

So our Pancreas is producing insulin and putting it into our bloodstream, so it's there to be used. but a situation can arise where the receptors are not working properly, and they have been desensitized to insulin.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

This is in contrast to diabetes mellitus type 1 in which there is an absolute insulin deficiency due to destruction of islet cells in the pancreas and gestational diabetes mellitus that is a new onset of high blood sugars associated with pregnancy.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

Now consider another doctor case this time you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive on needs a heart one a lung, one a kidney, one a liver and the fifth a pancreas.

And in the measure that we learn how chickens grow wings, and what the program is for those cells to differentiate, one of the things we're going to be able to do is to stop undifferentiated cells, which you know as cancer, and one of the things we're going to learn how to do is how to reprogram cells like stem cells in such a way that they express bone, stomach, skin, pancreas.