In type 2 diabetes, the body's ability to release insulin is impaired, which leads to high blood glucose levels. Research led ...

The pancreas is a large gland in the abdomen. It secretes pancreatic juices into the small intestine to digest food, and secretes insulin into the bloodstream to regulate glucose levels.

The normal response of the body to insulin resistance is to secrete more insulin to overcome the insulin resistance. However, in some individuals, pancreatic beta cells fail to secrete sufficient ...

To keep your blood sugar level in check, a specific type of cell in your pancreas secretes insulin in response to any sugar ...

Huch’s pancreatic organoids are now a promising avenue for disease modeling and generating precision medicines to treat ...

If you’ve spent time online recently, you’ve probably heard of insulin resistance: There are fitness routines to reverse it and supplements to supposedly counter it; people using the diabetes ...

Microscopic image of the pancreas organoid. The magenta shows the cell nuclei, and the cyan highlights the acinar cells that secrete digestive enzymes. Researchers from the Organoid group ...

If the blood glucose concentration is too high, the pancreas produces the hormone insulin, which causes glucose to move from the blood into the cells. Insulin targets liver and muscle cells ...